Violin Sonata No. 1 G Major, Op. 78

for Violin and Piano Henle Music Folios Softcover

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Violin Sonata No. 1 G Major, Op. 78

for Violin and Piano Henle Music Folios Softcover

Series: Henle Music Folios
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Format: Softcover
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Editor: Bernd Wiechert
Price: 21.95 (US)

Brahms's First Violin Sonata in G major is also known by the sobriquet “Regenliedsonate” (Rain Sonata) because its final movement quotes melodic motifs from his two songs “Regenlied” and “Nachklang” (which likewise has rain as its subject). The dotted opening motif of the finale already pervades the first two movements, thereby contributing to the inner cohesion of this wonderfully expressive, elegiac work. Brahms's contemporaries enthusiastically received this sonata, which was completed in 1879. Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, a close friend of the composer, found that one has to “love it like little else in the world.” The musical text of this revised Urtext edition is based on that of the newly completed volume of the New Brahms Complete Edition,which guarantees the highest degree of scholarly precision.