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Composer of the Week: Brahms

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5/5. Wrestling with Posterity. By the 1870s, the turbulence of Brahms's early life had been replaced by a comfortable bachelor routine. Even so. the masterpieces continued to pour forth.
Donald Macleod charts these years, and looks at Brahms's concern with his future biographers. Intermezzo in A flat, Op 76 No 3; Symphony No 1 in C minor (1st mvt); Das Madchen ; Fahr wohl; Der Falke (Lieder und Romanzen, Op 93a); Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2; Prelude on 0 Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op 122 No 11 Repeated from Friday at 12 noon

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