Cello Sonata No.2, Op.99- Brahms 'Wendy Warner - Cello • Irina Nuzova - Piano'

Composition Year: 1886
First Performance: 1886-11-24 in Vienna, Kleiner Musikvereinssaal Robert Hausmann (cello), Johannes Brahms (piano)
Performers: Wendy Warner - Cello • Irina Nuzova - Piano - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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00:01 1. Allegro vivace
09:07 2. Adagio affettuoso
16:51 3. Allegro passionato
23:46 4. Allegro molto
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Work:
The Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99, was written by Johannes Brahms in 1886, more than twenty years after completing his Sonata No. 1. It was first published in 1887. It was written for, dedicated to and first performed by Robert Hausmann, who had popularized the First Sonata, and who would the following year be given the honour of premiering the Double Concerto in A minor with Joseph Joachim.
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Biography:
Johannes Brahms 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
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Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, violin, voice, and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire.
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Brahms has been considered both a traditionalist and an innovator, by his contemporaries and by later writers. His music is rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. Embedded within those structures are deeply romantic motifs. While some contemporaries found his music to be overly academic, his contribution and craftsmanship were admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The detailed construction of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers.
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Wikipedia biography: https://bit.ly/3kbFPC0
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ATTRIBUTION
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