How Did Brahms Compose? - Composer Insights

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

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  • @MusicMattersGB
    @MusicMattersGB  3 года назад +7

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  • @marcstauch3081
    @marcstauch3081 3 года назад +14

    Thank you Gareth - a masterful exposition on masterful music!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  3 года назад

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  • @jayducharme
    @jayducharme 2 года назад +38

    Fascinating! And a beautiful performance, BTW. What impresses me the most is how inevitable the music sounds, as if it has no other way to progress than the way Brahms wrote it.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +4

      It’s gorgeous music

    • @mensabs
      @mensabs 2 года назад +1

      tapping into the truth perhaps

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      😅

    • @ericrakestraw664
      @ericrakestraw664 Год назад +1

      Beethoven has that same sense of inevitablity in his music as well. Perhaps that is why Brahms was always being compared to Beethoven in his lifetime.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  Год назад

      Very likely

  • @iknowyourerightbut4986
    @iknowyourerightbut4986 2 года назад +2

    One of my favourite pieces by Brahms. Thank you for the expert analysis. A video on the whole work would be wonderful.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

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  • @bobcosmic
    @bobcosmic 2 года назад +24

    An in depth look at how Brahms approached composing . Why do I feel like I’m back at University studying music that I’ve known for most of my life . Great upload !

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      Glad it’s both helpful and nostalgic

    • @bobcosmic
      @bobcosmic 2 года назад +1

      @@MusicMattersGB compositions can be intricate but then again when broken down to the smallest cell they are simple variations on a theme . Hope I’m not sounding too anal !

  • @WalyB01
    @WalyB01 2 года назад +8

    op 118 in its total is probably my favorite piano composition. It tells a store of passion, tenderness , a rising hero, love and despair. There is always that second voice telling a different story, in the background which is so clear in this intermezzo.
    ps there is somewhere a reference to Clara, which knowing their history, well finishes the deal for me. For me it tells their story and well I find that so incredibly beautiful put to music.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      It’s an absolutely beautiful piece and yes, surely that theme is there.

    • @cschlums2235
      @cschlums2235 2 года назад +1

      clara is all over brahms music

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      True

  • @drtmuir
    @drtmuir 2 года назад +1

    It's such a special piece. I've loved it since I was a child.

  • @uv357raz
    @uv357raz 2 года назад +5

    very well .. I am enjoying your recent installments very much .. this and your previous "Composing a Two-Part Invention - Music Composition" keep the "how to compose" discussion coming .. appreciate it very much.

  • @janefaceinthewind6260
    @janefaceinthewind6260 2 года назад +4

    A great, great joy to listen to, thank you so much! You are absolutely fantastic.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

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  • @paulmoon232
    @paulmoon232 2 года назад +3

    A wonderfully-explained analysis, Thanks so much.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

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  • @adamrafferty
    @adamrafferty 2 года назад +1

    Very inspiring to hear you play, thank you so much for this channel and your dedication!

  • @stephanebelizaire3627
    @stephanebelizaire3627 2 года назад +3

    Happy New Year 2022 Gareth !

  • @miladeskandari7
    @miladeskandari7 2 года назад

    This piece was my introduction to Brahms, and I have loved it since I heard it 8 years ago

  • @martinlewis6661
    @martinlewis6661 2 года назад +1

    Lovely - many thanks for sharing your expertise. I think that Brahms chap will go far.

  • @diegoalonsomartinezhernand5972
    @diegoalonsomartinezhernand5972 2 года назад +2

    Top quality content. Inspiring way to explain music. Thank you!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @neptunogaudio5460
    @neptunogaudio5460 2 года назад +1

    thats my favourite piece

  • @igk1099
    @igk1099 2 года назад

    your talking is like a mixture of carl sagan and mr rogers, super nice to hear you talk and explain things

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @conforzo
    @conforzo 2 года назад +3

    Would love to hear about some cinematic/theatrical harmonic ideas like from Wagner, Strauss. For example the Loge leitmotif, like how you fit chromaticism inside rapidly changing harmonies.

  • @williamsmithington3157
    @williamsmithington3157 2 года назад +2

    Thank you sir. Very well done.

  • @Scriabin_fan
    @Scriabin_fan 2 года назад

    Thanks for this. I'd love a video like this for composers like Ravel, Messiaen and Takemitsu.

  • @carlstenger5893
    @carlstenger5893 2 года назад +1

    Wonderful video. Thanks so much!

  • @bossshrek1241
    @bossshrek1241 2 года назад +3

    very good video!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @juanballesteros5084
    @juanballesteros5084 2 года назад

    Me hizo apreciar aun mas esta maravillosa pieza de Brahms

  • @simongross3122
    @simongross3122 2 года назад

    I've not paid much attention to Brahms, but this piece is gorgeous. Thanks for the explanation of what's going on here.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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    • @cschlums2235
      @cschlums2235 2 года назад +1

      Your missing out, his concerti, piano quintets, and his german requiem are great places to start

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      Those are all wonderful pieces. Obviously there’s only time to focus on a few bars of a single work in one of these videos but we could easily look at those other pieces in due course.

    • @cschlums2235
      @cschlums2235 2 года назад

      @@MusicMattersGB Oh I was talking to the other guy, but that would be amazing!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      @@cschlums2235 😀

  • @joaquinblasberg5368
    @joaquinblasberg5368 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for this masterclass!! This is one of the most beautiful and profound pieces in all repertoire, and view this analysis makes me apreciate it still more.
    Greetings from Argentina

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @scottweaverphotovideo
    @scottweaverphotovideo 2 года назад

    Very interesting analysis! Looking at that first page it also strikes me that it's all the middle of the keyboard, like most of Schumann's piano music.

  • @iwright621
    @iwright621 2 года назад

    Very nice piece , keep up the good work ! Great explanation .

  • @adamrafferty
    @adamrafferty 2 года назад

    Aside from the first A nd B, the basic idea of measures 2&3 look like retrograde inversion (B-up to E down to D) looks very much like the opening statement.

  • @cascanicoff5763
    @cascanicoff5763 2 года назад

    A most interesting vídeo. Thank you indeed

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @grubmountain
    @grubmountain 2 года назад

    Absolutely superb as usual!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @katiesethna
    @katiesethna 2 года назад

    Excellent video. Excellent exposition!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @johankrafft7295
    @johankrafft7295 2 года назад

    Yes very interesting! Thanks for the insight.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

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  • @ivvrthehomeless
    @ivvrthehomeless 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for this!

  • @franzlisztish
    @franzlisztish 2 года назад

    GREAT! Thanks VERY Much.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @thevidkoproductions
    @thevidkoproductions 2 года назад

    We need the same video for Mozart because his music is just out of this world

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      We have a video on Mozart with more to come.

  • @quisieable
    @quisieable 2 года назад

    Very inspiring!🥰 I wonder if you could introduce a little peace of Prokofiev once in a while? For instance Op 3 Nr. 1 Story? I like it so much and it has kind of very unusual harmony...🤩

  • @Santtittos
    @Santtittos 2 года назад

    Yeah! A great exposition!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

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  • @TheMentalblockrock
    @TheMentalblockrock 2 года назад +1

    Something about this piece reminds me of Queen! Please do an analysis of a Freddy Mercury song, Bohemian Rhapsody would be fantastic!

  • @GuitSiva
    @GuitSiva 2 года назад +1

    Thanks.. 👍Warm cheers.. 😊

  • @alfredonaviagarrido3622
    @alfredonaviagarrido3622 2 года назад

    Maestro Green, first of all thank you for doing this great job about giving musical education. It is such a great job, which makes worth watching RUclips. I´d like to ask you a question, if you don´t mind, something I guess I don´t understand well yet: in the bar 4, the last chord (e, g natural, c sharp-b) how it is possible that chord is a secondary dominant? As far as I know, a secondary dominant is a progression V-I, not I-V and, I don´t see the chord G but a diminished c# chord or a e minor chord (I don´t know if that is a matter of a melodic progression instead of a chordal one). I guess there´s must be something important I don´t know about that subject of secundary dominants and tonicizations. I wonder, then, if you could recommend me a video or a text when that it is explained thoroughly (I´ve alreadty seen a video of yours when you explain secondary dominants). Thank you very much indeed.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      Thanks for your positive comments, which are much appreciated. I’m glad you’ve seen our videos on secondary dominants, which explain the principle. What we have in this case is a secondary dominant into the key of D.

  • @psypau
    @psypau 2 года назад

    I have an idea for a video concept, you are such a scholar I am sure you will be able to explain how composers manage to develop their ideas. I'm sure I'm not original in being able to produce a lot of ideas like melodies or a series of chords, but what to do with this idea? how to develop it? how to play with imitations or harmonic accompaniment to make this idea charismatic. I am sure that with examples offered by Beethoven Chopin or Mozart you could teach us very interesting things. Thank you very much for your courses which are of an enormous richness.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      We’ve got some webinar material on that at www.mmcourses.co.uk plus our Composition course.

  • @minidrags2
    @minidrags2 2 года назад

    I'm a bit confused about the chord at 10:36. Isn't it a chord VII in D major? There is no A and when you play the notes close together it's a diminished chord i.e. chord 7? Or can it only be chord V-7 because that's what makes it into a secondary dominant? Thanks

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      Yes. I’m really thinking about how it functions as a secondary dominant but you’re correct in regarding the isolated chord as VII in D.

  • @nhanhuynh5643
    @nhanhuynh5643 2 года назад

    The first 3 notes are the beginning of Disney's Aladdin A whole new world, just brilliant.

  • @yoavnacht
    @yoavnacht 2 года назад

    Great. Please do some analysis of schumann (maybe something from the Humoreske)

  • @petersturmey2789
    @petersturmey2789 2 года назад

    Is it just me, but is Brahms prefiguring serialism here with development of small cells, retrograde like cells etc.
    love the presentation.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      It’s very interesting to draw those parallels. Schoenberg was much influenced by small cells in Bach and it’s certainly a feature of Brahms.

  • @JoeLinux2000
    @JoeLinux2000 2 года назад +1

    How did Brahms compose? Quite well.

  • @isaacshaw1596
    @isaacshaw1596 2 года назад

    How do you come up with motifs to get writing a longer piece.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      Experiment with inventing short melodic/ rhythmic figures

  • @rafaelrios3282
    @rafaelrios3282 2 года назад

    Could you do one on Stravinsky?

  • @neochanlee
    @neochanlee 2 года назад

    Super!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @isaacshaw1596
    @isaacshaw1596 3 месяца назад

    Interesting that in this rather beautiful lyrical reflective style, he writes d# to a melodically in the fourth phrase writing that melodic tritone. I’m assuming he gets away with that because it resolves by step coming inside the leap to help cushion that tritone.

  • @tjcint
    @tjcint 2 года назад +1

    A question for you .. you are highly analytical. Analysis is logic. Logic is basic, belongs to basic consciousness. To what extent do you imagine classical composers took flight into realms higher than basic logic when composing, rather than dwelling in logic ?

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      Of course composing is a mixture of technique and creative imagination. By understanding the technique we sometimes access a glimmer of the creative mind.

    • @tjcint
      @tjcint 2 года назад +1

      @@MusicMattersGB How can understanding technique ever give access to creativity ? It can't.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      @@tjcint I’m not suggesting that it does but without technique creativity can’t flourish. When we analyse a piece of music we discover both the technique and the creativity. That’s the joy of analysis, particularly with regard to the latter.

  • @SpaghettiToaster
    @SpaghettiToaster 2 года назад

    Wonderful! Rachmaninoff next please!

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster 2 года назад

      For example, the D major prelude is a miracle of melody, harmony, counterpoint and pianistic texture. I'd love to hear your analysis.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      Rachmaninov is in the pipeline

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster 2 года назад

      @@MusicMattersGB Cool, I can't wait!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      😀

  • @dankleffmann2473
    @dankleffmann2473 2 года назад

    ❤️

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

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  • @christopherlord3441
    @christopherlord3441 2 года назад

    Brilliant. I suppose you could call this 'melodic leading' rather than just 'voice leading'. Mozart does the same thing. Keep up the good work.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      You could. Voice leading is the official term.

    • @christopherlord3441
      @christopherlord3441 2 года назад

      @@MusicMattersGB No, I mean using fragments of melody rather than just single notes.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      Okay. Certainly fragments of melody are used in sequence or with one fragment answering another.

  • @luigipalumbo3294
    @luigipalumbo3294 2 года назад

    👍

  • @manguera9
    @manguera9 2 года назад

    Composers like Brahms, never composed by techniques, they composed what they heard in their brains, this video is about analysis how they did composed a classical piece.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      Composition, like anything creative, is a mixture of inspiration and technique. The analysis reveals the technique and often leads us to the inspiration.

    • @manguera9
      @manguera9 2 года назад

      Bethoveen had a method to composed ,first sketch, the inspiration lines pages ,second sketch,the arrangement using techniques

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      Certainly his output is a wonderful blend of inspiration and technique

  • @drKozelnik
    @drKozelnik 2 года назад

    beautiful, isn't it?

  • @trafyknits9222
    @trafyknits9222 2 года назад +1

    Not sure about his composing skills, but his ice cream is pretty good. Oh wait, that's Braum's. Never mind.

  • @deplinenoise
    @deplinenoise 2 года назад

    Repetition legitimizes!

  • @IrminsulMusic
    @IrminsulMusic 2 года назад

    According to Tchaikovsky, not without help from someone else.

  • @ergbudster3333
    @ergbudster3333 2 года назад

    With a pen and some lined score paper.

  • @NothingHumanisAlientoMe
    @NothingHumanisAlientoMe 2 года назад

    Obviously the elves in the North Pole were kept at the composition sheets 24/7

  • @Dzonrid
    @Dzonrid 2 года назад

    Brahms doesn't write anything. He's dead.
    Sorry, I just couldn't help it.
    Great job! Very interesting.

  • @meyerbeer13
    @meyerbeer13 2 года назад

    Brahms was great but he wrote the same piece many times over.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      There’s huge variety between one piece and the next.

    • @meyerbeer13
      @meyerbeer13 2 года назад

      @@MusicMattersGB well ... Depends ... But Brahms had certain predictable things he did ... But whether the pieces are different depends on which pieces.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      😀

  • @in5364
    @in5364 2 года назад

    Wow you look so thin. Are you okay?

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад

      I’m fine. Intentional weight loss. Thanks for asking.

  • @vichmora
    @vichmora 2 года назад

    Hi, I’m a professional musician from Venezuela. Is very offensive that my access to your web is forbidden with a message informing that is due to I live in a country with “US sanctions”. Why kind of idiot blocked the access for this reason? Those sanctions are not related to common residents of Venezuela at all.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  2 года назад +1

      I had no idea that this is happening. Most unfortunate and sadly, beyond our control

    • @vichmora
      @vichmora 2 года назад

      @@MusicMattersGB I imagine is made by your internet server, is totally absurd, this act of discrimination doesn’t happen even in web pages from USA.

  • @miguelmeyer1735
    @miguelmeyer1735 5 месяцев назад

    Please, transplante to Spanish

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  5 месяцев назад

      There are professional captions available and you can change them to translate in Spanish automatically. Not perfect but hope that’s useful.