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Brahms, Johannes: Symphony no. 2 D major op. 73

(Pascall, Robert / Struck, Michael)

pocket score

Setting: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Length: 240 pages
Weight: 0.464 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9853
Other reference: HN 9853
ISMN: 9790201898537
During composition of his First Symphony, Brahms was still very much under Beethoven's influence - in his Second Symphony he loosened the ties considerably. The principle of motivic embellishment now infuses not just thedevelopment section but the whole of the first movement. In the following movements, too, everything appears to be interrelated. The premiere in Vienna's Musikverein was one of the greatest triumphs of Brahms's career, and hewrote enthusiastically: The orchestra here rehearsed, p
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