Brahms Symphony No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
The Ending of the Fourth Symphony
Was this symphony a warning to his friends and admirers all over vienna and in austria? Was it more personal about brahm's own mortality, or the deaths of so many of his friends, lovers and family members? Or could it have simply been bramstein true to bach, saying, i started this pasacalia in a minor key, and so the rules say i have to end it in one. Brahms felt that he was the last of a dying breed. His only other symphonic rival was anton bruckner, whom he thought would never last in history. But while he was right that modernism was going to, in the end win
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