{"product_id":"4012476569369-brahms-1","title":"PHILHARMONISCHES ORCHESTER DER HANSESTADT^BRAHMS | BRAHMS 1","description":"During the fourteen years in which he worked on his First Symphony, Brahms was under a high pressure of expectation: in the shadow cast by Beethoven, he was forced to take a compositionally convincing position both with respect to the dominant father figure as well as the New German School.\" Moreover, he saw himself associated with friends who pressed him for a first symphony. And, finally, in the 1850s the scrupulous, hard working but at times insecure Brahms suffered setbacks in at least two attempts to form a symphony out of already extensively developed compositional material. Among all these obstacles, Beethoven's \"model\" was undoubtedly the greatest. Concerning this, the following remarks by Brahms have come down to us: he explained to his friend Carl Bargheer of Detmold: \"If one still attempts to write symphonies after Beethoven, then they have to look entirely different.\" Some ten years later, after he had already composed a first version of the opening movement of his First Symphony, he admitted to the conductor Hermann Levi: \"I will never compose a symphony! You have no idea how I feel when I always hear such a giant marching behind me\" - meaning Beethoven. Strauss' tone poem Death and Transfiguration \"is an example of a poetic idea that was retrospectively assigned. Alexander Ritter, poet-musician in Meiningen also gave the new composition the title and program: Ritter initially thought of the title \"Seraphic Fantasy\" - thus a first hint of a metaphysical program - but then decided on \"Death and Transfiguration\". But that's not all: Strauss had a poem by Ritters that existed in two versions preceded the printed score, combining music and poetry. This dedicated program came into being only after the composition had been completed - whether Strauss was creatively guided by a \"poetic idea\" remains to be seen.\"","brand":"ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT LLC","offers":[{"title":"USA Supplier - 4-10 Days","offer_id":67786634723628,"sku":"al-4012476569369","price":37.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/5186\/5644\/files\/3931164-2675330.jpg?v=1793930675","url":"https:\/\/realgroovy.com\/products\/4012476569369-brahms-1","provider":"Real Groovy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}