Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

Winter Chamber Music Festival: The 19th annual edition of the popular series begins with the New Orford String Quartet playing Beethoven’s Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Brahms’ Quartet No. 1 and Gary ...

Schoenberg gave three reasons for orchestrating Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor: "1) I like this piece. 2) It is seldom played. 3) It is always played badly, because the better the pianist the ...

The Tokyo String Quartet, in residency at the Yale School of Music since 1976, gave their first concert of the season last night in a packed Battell Chapel. An all-Brahms program highlighted the ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Jupiter String Quartet, all of them string ...

London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where it has given a number of memorable concerts. Now in its 11th year, it ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...