Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 1, Op. 11 (1860)

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.

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Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 (1857-1860)

1. Allegro molto
2. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo (D minor) — Trio. Poco più moto (12:56)
3. Adagio non troppo (21:08)
4. Menuetto I — Menuetto II (34:54)
5. Scherzo. Allegro — Trio (39:18)
6. Rondo. Allegro (42:09)

Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia conducted by Anshel Brusilow

Composed in 1857 as a nonet for wind and strings (version lost)
Revised in 1858 for chamber orchestra (version lost)
Revised in 1858 for full orchestra
Arranged for piano 4 hands by Brahms in 1859 or 1860

The final version of the work for orchestra premiered in Hannover, Germany, on March 3, 1860, and was published that same year, making it Brahms’s first orchestral work to appear in print.

Brahms’s serenade was sketched in Detmold, Germany, in 1857–58, when the composer was wintering there as a part-time music teacher in the court of Prince Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold. Then in his mid-20s, Brahms adopted a neoclassical style that was variously reminiscent of the earlier small-orchestra and ensemble works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and others, but he did not set aside his own Romantic sensibilities. The piece has six movements. The jubilant sonata-form first movement, with its distinctive drones, is followed by a rather sombre scherzo. Songlike flute melodies lend an idyllic quality to the third movement, “Adagio non troppo,” and a pair of straightforward, alternately wind- and string-dominated minuets form the third and fourth movements. The penultimate movement is a stately scherzo featuring particularly prominent horn parts, and the piece concludes with a galloping rondo played by the full orchestra.

Originally, the composition was modestly scored for nine wind and string players, but the composer’s friends—notably pianist Clara Schumann and violinist Joseph Joachim—encouraged him to rework the piece for a larger ensemble. Joachim conducted the premiere of the revised, final version, which included brass, timpani, and a larger contingent of woodwinds. Schumann, in turn, ensured the piece’s premiere in Vienna by making its presence on the program a condition of her own concert appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic.

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