![]() Belly and beard date from those years (“clean-shaven they take you for an actor or a priest,” he said). Brahms had settled in Vienna and given up conducting and playing the piano as regular activities and sources of livelihood. More than twenty years would pass before there was “a second one.” They were full years. ![]() “.and a second one will sound very different,” wrote Brahms to Joseph Joachim, rendering a report on the disastrous reception in Leipzig of his First Piano Concerto. In addition to the solo piano, the score calls for 2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings (first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses). Lang as soloist and Georg Henschel conducting First BSO performance: March 15, 1884, with B.J.First performance: Budapest, November 9, 1881, Orchestra of the National Theater, Alexander Erkel conducting, with Brahms as soloist.Composer's life: Born in Hamburg on May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna on April 3, 1897. ![]()
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