MUSIC DEPARTMENT STUDENT NAME: ______
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Johannes Brahms
Chapter 4 The Vagabond Years
Page 1 (24 questions Total)
1)In 1856 at the age of 23, Brahms returns to Hamburg. Dr. Greenburg states that he devotes his time to three things. Please agate these three things.
2)What Key does Brahms write his piano concerto in?
3)Dr. Greenberg goes on to state that in three years, Brahms seemed to age
______(how many years)?
4)Concerning the composer Robert Schumann. How does Schumann attempt to
end his life?
5)Does Schumann survive this ordeal?
6)In order to write a piano concerto, one must have expertise in orchestration.
According to Dr. Greenberg, how much expertise did Johannes Brahms have in the area or orchestration?
7)Was the Piano Concerto Johannes Brahms his first composition requiring skill in orchestration?
8)What is the opus number of the Brahms Piano Concerto?
9)In what year was the piano concerto published?
10) Dr. Greenberg states that the Piano Concerto (first movement)by Johannes Brahms was inspired by the composition of an earlier composer. Name that composer and name the composition that inspired Brahms.
11) Johannes Brahms, in the second movement of the piano concerto, considered
it to be a portrait of?
12) How many movements does the Brahms piano Concerto contain?
13) The third movement of the piano concerto by Brahms is modeled on which
composition by which composer?
14) Dr. Greenberg states that (after the piano concerto) the world had to wait ______years before Johannes Brahms would compose another orchestral work?
15)Brahms states the years which he considered to be his “Vagabond Years”
State the years.
16) Johannes Brahms is offered a full-time teaching position (where)?
17) Who was Agatha von Seabold?
18) What composition does Brahms compose for Agatha von Seabold?
19) Dr. Greenberg plays one example from The 23 Songs for Soprano and Piano.
Which song does his use as an example?
20) Does Johannes Brahms marry Agatha von Seabold.
21) Johannes Brahms performs in Leipzig at the Grand Haus. This is the most
prestigious venue in Germany. Dr. Greenberg comments on how the Piano Concerto was received in Leipzig.
22) At this concert in Leipzig, what was the reason why this concert was not well
received.
23) Johannes Brahms was hissed off the stage at Leipzig. The concert received
bad reviews. There was one group of people in the audience who did applaud after the concert although Johannes Brahms did not appreciate the applause. Who were these people?
24) What did Johannes Brahms do after the concert in Leipzig?