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Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
| Composer: | Brahms, Johannes |
| Editor: | Hanspeter Krellmann |
| Instrumentation: | Piano quartet (violin, viola, cello, piano) |
| Publisher: | G. Henle Verlag |
| Item Code: | 51480285 |
| Category: | Print music |
| Description: | Brahms' Third Piano Quartet stands out for the extremely involved and complex history of its genesis. A very first version of certain sections - still in C# minor - had been written in 1855/56, but neither the composer nor his friends were genuinely happy with this version. In 1869 Brahms reprised his work, but still found no satisfying solution. It was not until 1874/75 that he brought the final version to paper, replacing the two movements of the original version with new ones. While the tragic key of C minor points to the truly dark, passionate character of the work, the composer actually singled out the mood of suffering of the quartet himself in several letters. |