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Article: Five: Brahms's Cello Sonata in F Major and its genesis: a study in half-step relations.(Johannes Brahms)(Critical essay)
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- Brahms Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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A mystery connects Brahms's Cello Sonata in F Major, op. 99, to his earlier Cello Sonata in E Minor, op. 38. Brahms's handwritten entries in his personal inventory of works indicate that he had completed three movements of the E-minor work in 1862 and a fourth movement in June 1865. (1) Yet, when in June 1866 this sonata appeared in print, it contained only three movements, with two Allegros surrounding an Allegretto quasi Menuetto. Max Kalbeck speculated that the discarded slow movement--"which Brahms had laid aside because he did not want to overload the work"--may have reappeared in 1886, more than twenty years later, as the Adagio affettuoso of the F-Major Sonata. (2) ...