Brahms: Sonatas, Op. 120 (violin version)
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Editors: Clive Brown, Neal Peres Da Costa Instrumentation: Piano, Violin Binding: ISMN: 9790006558865 Size: 9.6 x 12.2 inches Pages: 97 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 conceived an alternate version of the works for viola from the beginning and already before the publication of these two versions he intended to do another one for violin, a version which was to require changes and was to result in an independent edition. While the clarinet and viola versions have developed a rich performance tradition, the violin version is almost unknown. Yet for the violin version the compo