1. Classical & Romantic Musical Styles
Haydn’s String Quartet op. 77.2
Brahms’ Piano Trio #1

2. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809 106 symphonies 84 String Quartets Concertos
Oratorios
Masses
Operas
Occasional music

3. Joseph Haydn Musical structure: Symphony String Quartet
1. Moderately fast Allegro Sonata form
2. Moderate Minuet Rondo (or Trio form)
3. Slow Andante A-B-A (Trio form)
4. Fast Allegretto Rondo

4. Sonata Form Exposition:
Part 1: Theme & response theme, transition to restart
Part II: Theme & response theme, transition:
to development
Development: Themes explored
Various keys
Various instruments
Various musical tensions
Various emotions
Recapitulation
Theme & response theme; transition to finale
Finale: Finale; Coda and Finale

5. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897 Piano music Chamber music Choral music
200+ Lieder
Concertos
Sonatas
4 Symphonies
(122 numbered works)

6. Johannes Brahms Piano Trio #1, Op. 8, F maj. First & last Trio,
Shortened by 1/3,
Both versions remain in
publication
“Less wild.”
Influenced by Clara Schumann

7. Johannes Brahms Piano Trio #1, Op. 8, F maj. I. Allegro con brio
Sonata form (?)
II Scherzo. Allegro molto
A-B-A form
III Adagio
IV. Allegro
A-B-A-B

8. Johannes Brahms Classicist or Romantic?
“The chaos of emotion shackled and subdued by a relentless sense of form and discipline: that is Brahms's art in a nutshell. Likewise, his life. And the most familiar and beloved note in his art is the note of yearning.”
“A classicising Romantic”
Jan Swafford

9. RI Chamber Music Concerts - #1
Haydn’s String Quartet op. 77.2
Brahms’ Piano Trio #1
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, op. 57
Attacca Quartet
Wednesday • October 11, 2017, 7:30 PM