The second movement, a fiery scherzo, puzzled some of his contemporaries, to whom Brahms remarked “But the first movement is so harmless!” In review, we can see that Brahms needed the scherzo to balance the whole work. None-the-less, Brahms delivered this delightful concerto to the world that was anything but stodgy – fresh and charming, and in four movements rather than the traditional three. They must not have paid any attention to his splendid Serenade No.2, or at the very least, the glorious last movement to his Second Symphony. Yet, also by this time, some of the music establishment had grown to regard Brahms’ music as sad, intense, and stodgy. By 1881, Brahms was at particular ease with orchestral writing, and with his particular place in the world. ![]() ![]() He had by then tackled his nemesis, a first symphony, and had gone on to write another, as well as his beloved Violin Concerto (with Joachim). ![]() When Brahms finally came round to composing a second piano concerto, finishing it in 1881, he had, however, achieved fame as a composer the world over. Johannes Brahms (b Hamburg, d Vienna, 3 April 1897)
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