His music life by Shengyi Huang

Johannes Brahms

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German and Austrian writers of early Romanticism.

Brahms was well aware that musical romanticism tended to be fundamentally opposed to the principles of classical symphonies, so he always reconciled the two in his composition. He is considered the successor of the classical style in the Romantic period.

Music concept

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Creation features:

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Music creation:

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Brahms was against the trend. Adhering to the classical tradition, he agreed with the concept of "pure music", believing that music should return to itself and should not be overly combined with literature.

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He inherited the classical music tradition and was sensitive to romantic harmonic effects, rhythm, and color effects.

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Classical music in the Romantic school

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VOCALS

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Pianos

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Symphonys

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chorus

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Art song

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Created a lot of a cappella boys, girls, mixed choruses

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The large-scale German Requiem is one of Brahms' budget favorites. The lyrics are excerpts from the German Bible. With carefully designed musical form structure and harmonic texture, he expresses the sincere and profound hope of mankind for the future destiny.

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Folk style, simple and sincere

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The ballads were influenced by Schubert and Schumann.

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The emotional tone of the songs is mostly serious, solemn and sad

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Mostly about life, love and nature

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Following the untitled tradition of classicism, the structure, development, and motivation of the movements are similar to those of the classical tradition. Harmony vocabulary, color expression highlights the romantic temperament.

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Brahms was not confined to the use of one instrument. He focused on the sound configuration of the group of instruments, thus creating his heavy, gloomy, obscure musical style.

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Important works include four symphonies. The first one, influenced by Beethoven, took more than 20 years from conception to completion.

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Like to use a variety of techniques to improve the difficulty of playing. He pays attention to loud sound and heavy temperament. The types of pieces involve sonatas, concertos, variations, intermezzos and so on.