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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Composer of the Week: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Episode 5: Rows and Reconciliation

Brahms Experience: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

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Episode 5: Rows and Reconciliation

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Rows and Reconciliation

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Rows and Reconciliation

Exploring how, despite their rows, Brahms and Clara Schumann stayed devoted to one another

Donald Macleod explains how, despite their frequent rows, Brahms and Clara Schumann remained devoted to one another into their old age.

The bearded and bloated Brahms of caricature continued to be inspired by Clara Schumann, despite a multitude of fleeting passions for other women. As Donald Macleod wraps up his account of their long and frequently troubled friendship, we find them at loggerheads in the late evening of their lives about something relatively trivial (an edition of Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony). Clara becomes jealous of the attentions of Frau Elizabeth von Herzogenberg, and feels snubbed. Nevertheless, through all her many personal tragedies, Johannes Brahms remains a constant support, whilst she remained for him an inspiration throughout his life. Right until the end of their lives, he refers his symphonies to her, and dedicates to her some of his most tender, valedictory piano compositions.

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Donald Macleod explores the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann

Exploring the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, who would become a lifelong friend, critic and inspiration

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