The Chamber Music of Brahms (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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All the chamber music works except the seven duet sonatas (three for Violin, two for Violoncello, and two for clarinet) are obtainable in the excellently edited miniature scores of the Eulenberg Edition. The sonatas are published in the Simrock Edition. Brahms himself arranged as piano duets (for one piano, four hands) the two Sextets, the Piano Quartets in G minor and A maj or (but not the C minor), all three String Quartets, and the two Viola Quintets. The Piano Quintet he published also as a Sonata for Two Pianos, opus 34, b. The Clarinet Sonatas he issued for Violin and piano as Well as for Viola and piano. Other of the chamber music works have been arranged, both for one piano, four hands and for two pianos, four hands - most of them published by Simrock. Even for piano solo Paul Klengel has made a few highly effective tran scriptions, notably the Horn Trio, the two Viola Quintets, and the Clarinet Quintet.

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