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Masterpieces of Western Music

Humanities W1123 · Prof. Michael Thaddeus

Johannes Brahms (1832-1897)

ASSIGNMENT


Brahms was the anti-Wagner in many ways: conservative and retrospective, deeply influenced by baroque and classical music, he never wrote an opera but was prolific in many other forms, including vocal, piano, orchestral, and chamber music.

PRINT the questionnaire and fill it out as you LISTEN to Brahms's Haydn Variations in the version for orchestra.

Here are clips of some of the instruments named in the questionnaire: Horn   Oboe   Timpani   Triangle  


Variations on a theme of Haydn, Op. 56 (19'02)
played by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur


PS: If you liked the Ride of the Valkyries, you'll love this Wagner pastiche in which it figures.