But that’s only because Brahms’s Third Symphony is comparatively so much more compositionally influential, more popular, and more performed than, for instance, the Third Piano Sonata, Third Piano Quartet, or the Third String Quartet. read more
Late Idyll: The Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms, by Reinhold Brinkmann, translated by Peter Palmer. An analysis of Symphony No. 2 and meditation of its position in Brahms's career and in relation to 19th century ideas of melancholy. read more