Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

62 ( 1824 ) Antonin Dvořák attempted a half-hearted revival, using the instrument in his Czech Suite ( 1879 ), in which he specifies that an English horn ( cor anglais ) may be used instead, but the instrument was largely abandoned until Richard Strauss took it up once more in his operas Elektra ( 1909 ), Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Daphne, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio, and several later works, including two wind serenades ( Happy Workshop and Invalid's Workshop ).

In 1720 and 1721 he wrote two serenades to librettos by a gifted young poet, Metastasio, the beginning of a long, though interrupted, collaboration.

Orchestral concert works by Brüll include the Im Walde and Macbeth overtures, and three serenades, a violin concerto, and the two piano concertos, as well as three other piano concertante pieces.

At the concert, Mozart opened matters with the first three movements of this symphony, an aria from Idomeneo ( described in his letter to his father of March 29 that year as his Munich opera ), a piano concerto, a scena ( a genre related to the concert aria ), the concertante movements of one of his recent serenades, his piano concerto K. 175 ( with a new finale )— and another scena ( from an opera he'd composed for Milan ); at this point he improvised a fugue " because the Emperor was present " and then two sets of variations ( K. 398 on an aria by Paisiello and K. 455 on an aria by Gluck ).

He dies of natural causes two days after the Swindon Mallets win the Superhoop croquet championship and serenades the ferryman on his final journey.

In the French song " Rossignolet du bois ", accompanied only by the clarinet at first but later by the harp and crotales, a nightingale advises an inquiring lover to sing his serenades two hours after midnight, and identifies the " apples " in his garden as the moon and the sun.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

He also spoke of `` the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years in unrequited toil ''.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

After Schumann's death, Brahms hurried to Düsseldorf and for the next two years lived in an apartment above the Schumann's house, and sacrificed his career and his art for Clara's sake.

Brahms admired some of Wagner's music and admired Liszt as a great pianist, but the conflict between the two schools, known as the War of the Romantics, soon embroiled all of musical Europe.

The latter's influence may be identified in works by Brahms dating from the period, such as the two piano quartets Op.

Zemlinsky, moreover, was in turn the teacher of Arnold Schoenberg, and Brahms was apparently impressed by two movements of Schoenberg's early Quartet in D major which Zemlinsky showed him.

Johannes Brahms was persuaded by Clara Schumann to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet.

The symphonies played most frequently were Franck's D minor Symphony, the Symphonie fantastique, Beethoven's Seventh, Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Sixth, and the first two symphonies of Brahms.

Originally consisting of works for one or two performers by composers from Johann Sebastian Bach to Johannes Brahms, the series was later expanded to include a limited number of later works, such as the Ludus Tonalis of Paul Hindemith.

Many of her most famous recordings were made on this instrument, including the Elgar Concerto with Barbirolli, the Robert Schumann Cello Concerto with Barenboim and the two Brahms cello sonatas.

Upon its completion, Brahms sent its score to his friend, the surgeon and violinist Theodor Billroth to whom Brahms had dedicated his first two string quartets, describing the work as " some little piano pieces.

But in April, two years later, Joachim was to lose forever this revered friend, as Johannes Brahms died at the age of 64 at Vienna.

His studio recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas, made in the 1960s, display exceptional technique for a man in his seventies ( Decca 433882 ), as do the two Brahms concertos from about the same time ( Decca 433895 ).

Jochum also made two complete recordings of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms, one with the Berlin Philharmonic in the mid-1950s, the other with the London Philharmonic in 1977.

Szeryng made a number of recordings, including two of the complete sonatas and partitas for violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, and several of sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms with the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

Brahms only retained the original material from the work's first movement ; the remaining movements were discarded and two new ones were composed, yielding a work in the more usual three-movement concerto structure.

Many of the popular works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands.

Brahms transcribed the quintet into a sonata for two pianos ( in which form Brahms and Carl Tausig performed it ) before taking its final form.

In the diary his wife kept during his 1909 Russian tour, she mentions his raising his eyebrows when he saw Brahms ' Handel Variations on a program — a piece he had not played or even looked at for two and a half years.

In addition to the Monteverdi, HMV issued two further sets of her recordings in 1938: the Piano Concerto in D by Jean Françaix, which she conducted ; and the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, in which she and Dinu Lipatti were the duo pianists with a vocal ensemble, and ( again with Lipatti ) a selection of the Brahms Waltzes, Op.

The reader may compare the two passages by following these links: Brahms, Haydn ( see below for link credits ).