Brahms, clarinet quintet / Colin Lawson.

Author/creator Lawson, Colin
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxii, 118 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Quintets, clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello, op. 115, B minor

SeriesCambridge music handbooks
Cambridge music handbooks. ^A275900
Contents The nineteenth-century clarinet and its music. An integrated model: Mozart's clarinet quintet ; The age of virtuosity ; Clarinet chamber music after 1850 ; The development of the clarinet ; Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets -- Brahms and the orchestral clarinet. Brahms's orchestras ; The character of the orchestral clarinet ; The German tradition of wind writing ; Brahms and the clarinet: early works ; Mature orchestral writing -- Brahms's chamber music before 1891. Aspects of style ; Formal procedures ; Chamber music with wind ; String chamber music ; The string quintet op. 111 -- The genesis and reception of the clarinet quintet. Brahms and Meiningen ; Richard Muhlfeld ; The clarinet trio op. 114 ; Clarinet quintet reception, 1891-4 ; Brahms's clarinet sonatas op. 120 ; Muhlfeld's final decade ; The Brahms quintet after Muhlfeld -- Design and structure. Introduction ; Allegro ; Adagio ; Andantino - presto non assai, ma con sentiment ; Con moto -- Performance practice. Introduction: the issues ; Changes in musical taste ; Muhlfeld's clarinet playing ; The string quartet ; Tempo flexibility, articulation and nuance ; Later interpretations -- The legacy of Brahms's clarinet music. Introduction: clarinet music after Brahms ; The influence of Brahms ; Max Reger ; Robert Fuchs and his contemporaries ; The clarinet quintet in England -- Appendix 1. A list of Brahms's chamber music -- Appendix 2. A review of the first London performance, The Times, 29 March 1892 -- Appendix 3. The mechanism of Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets.
Abstract On its first appearance in 1891, Brahms's clarinet quintet was immediately recognized as a remarkable achievement, and a century later it still has the power to claim the hearts and minds of players and audiences alike. Widely regarded as Brahms's supreme achievement in the field of chamber music, the clarinet quintet is here placed in the context of the history of the clarinet and its repertory, and of Brahms's own compositions before 1891. The influence of the Meiningen clarinet virtuoso Richard Muhlfeld unleashed a new vein of creativity in Brahms, and this forms a basis for discussion, together with questions of performance practice (in relation to both clarinet and string quartet) and the legacy of Brahms's clarinet music. These chapters are complemented by a comprehensive analysis of the music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 108-111) and index.
LCCN 97005990
ISBN0521581931 (hardbound)
ISBN0521588316 (paperback)

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