Brahms, Johannes: Symphony no. 4 in e minor op. 98

pocket score

Setting: Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Length: 152 pages
Weight: 0.301 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9856
Other reference: HN9855-1
ISMN: 9790201898568
The genesis of the Fourth Symphony possibly goes back to the 1870s when Brahms was studying the Bach Cantata ''Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich'', whose chaconne theme forms the nucleus of the finale. Around 29 August 1885 Brahms wrote to Hans von Bülow from Mürzzuschlag in Styria: ''However I have a few entr’actes ╩ which together form what one would usually call a symphony. [”] I am afraid [”], it takes after the climate in this region ╩ the cherries do not ripen here.'' Yet we are by no means s

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