Double Concerto (Brahms)
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The Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, by Johannes Brahms is a concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, composed in 1887 as his last work for orchestra.
The composer in 1889
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Amalie Joachim
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Amalie Marie Joachim was an Austrian-German contralto, working in opera and concert and as voice teacher. She was the wife of the violinist Joseph Joachim, and a friend of both Clara Schumann and Joha
Double Concerto (Brahms)
…concerto was, in part, a gesture of reconciliation towards Joachim, after their long friendship had ruptured following Joachim's divorce from his wife Amalie. (Brahms had sided with Amalie in the dispute.) The concerto makes use of the musical motif A–E–F, a permutation of F–A–E, which stood for a personal…
Amalie Joachim,Photographie von J. C. Schaarwächter
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Joseph und Amalie Joachim, by Adolf Neumann, in Die Gartenlaube, 1873
Plaster bust of Amalie Weiss Joachim by sculptor Elisabet Ney, executed in 1867 and commissioned by her husband, Joseph Joachim.