Belly and beard date from this time (“clean-shaven they take you for an actor or a priest,” he said). Brahms had settled in Vienna and given up conducting and playing the piano as regular activities and sources of livelihood. More than twenty years would pass before there was a second one. THE BACKSTORY “A second one will sound very different,” wrote Brahms to Joseph Joachim, rendering a report on the disastrous reception in Leipzig of his First Piano Concerto. INSTRUMENTATION: 2 each of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons 4 horns 2 trumpets timpani and strings Yefim Bronfman was pianist and Michael Tilson Thomas led Carl Friedberg was soloist with Alfred Hertz conducting. Pianist Rafael Joseffy with the New York Philharmonic, Theodore Thomas conducting WORLD PREMIERE: After a private tryout of the work with Hans von Bülow and the Meiningen Orchestra, Brahms gave the first public performance on November 9, 1881, in Budapest, Alexander Erkel conducting the Orchestra of the National Theater The score was completed at Pressbaum, near Vienna, on July 7, 1881 COMPOSED: First sketches were begun in the late spring of 1878.
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