
Composed in the summer of 1887, and first performed on 18 October of that year[1], it was Brahms' final work for orchestra. Brahms, approaching the project with anxiety over writing for instruments that were not his own,[2] wrote it for the cellist Robert Hausmann[3] and his old estranged friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim. The concerto was, in part, a gesture of reconciliation towards Joachim, after their long friendship had ruptured following Joachim's divorce from his wife Amalie.[4] Brahms had sided with Amalie in the dispute, and this led to the estrangement between Brahms and Joachim. The Double Concerto acted as a form of musical reconciliation.[5] The concerto also makes use of the musical motif AEF, a permutation of FAE, which stood for a personal motto of Joachim, frei aber einsam ("free but lonely").[6] [editstructure The composition consists of three movements in the fast-slow-fast pattern typical of classical instrumental concertos: Allegro (A minor) Andante (D major)...
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