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Brahms B Major Piano Trio

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Return of the First Theme in B Major

What Brahms is doing is combining so many different motifs and ideas from the exposition. We haven't quite come to terms with the development yet, so the music is not as peaceful and contented as it was in the exposition. In the first version Brahms moves the tempo faster, and the music recalls again the drama of the development section. The older Brahms has a completely different idea. Instead of a faster tempo he writes a slower tempo.

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