Every bar and every note must sound like a ritard, as if one wanted to suck melancholy out of each and every one, lustily and with pleasure out of these very dissonances! Good Lord, this description will awaken your desire! Berthold Litzmann, Clara Schumann: Ein Künstlerleben nach Tagebüchern und Briefen, 3 vols. The little piece is exceptionally melancholic and ‘to be played very slowly’ is not an understatement. It is teeming with dissonances! These may be correct and be explained-but maybe they won’t please your palate, and now I wished, they would be less correct, but more appetizing and agreeable to your taste. In a letter dated May 1893, composed in the final years before their death, Brahms wrote the following to Clara Wieck-Schumann: I am tempted to copy out a small piano piece for you, because I would like to know how you agree with it. Johannes Brahms: Progressive or Subversive?.Concert Review: BSO Carter Interventions.
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