Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Editors: Clive Brown, Neal Peres Da Costa Instrumentation: Piano, Clarinet Binding: ISMN: 9790006544448 Size: 9.6 x 12.2 inches Pages: 80 Urtext / Critical Edition Description Brahms had already announced his "retirement" from composition when, in the spring of 1894, he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. Brahms and Mühlfeld premiered the works and played them in several performances until the sonatas op. 120 were first published in June of 1895. They remain pivotal works in the clarinet's recital repertoire establishing the clarinet sonata as a distinct and viable chamber music genre. An important part of this edition is the extensive preface. Firstly it informs about the sonatas‘ origins, their compositional pr