A Study of the Relationship Between Motive and Structure in Brahms's op. 51 String Quartets
Description:
In 1873, Brahms completed the two op. 51 quartets. These were not the first string quartets Brahms composed, hut they were the first that Brahms allowed to be published. He found the string quartet difficult; as he confided to his friend Alwin Cranz, he sketched out twenty string quartets before producing a pair he thought worthy of publishing. Questions arise: what aspect of the string quartet gave Brahms so much trouble, and what in the op. 51 quartets gave him the inclination to publish them…
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Date:
August 1989
Creator:
Yang, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Hoh)
Partner:
UNT Libraries