![]() ![]() Yet Brahms wrote again just 3 days later, stating “I hope that Mühlfeld can come – as I fear I find these two works quite awkward and unpleasant as viola sonatas.” This was before he had even created a version for viola! Brahms mentioned that he would try to bring Mühlfeld and possibly a viola part for them to perform for Clara Schumann. On OctoBrahms wrote to violinist Joseph Joachim, asking whether they could meet in Frankfurt in the first half of Winter. After finishing the two sonatas, Brahms was requested by the publisher Simrock to create a version for viola and piano. ![]() 120 for his clarinetist friend Richard Mühlfeld of Meiningen, to whom he had previously dedicated the Clarinet Trio and Clarinet Quintet. A really terrific historical (and formal) analysis of the work is done by James Creitz of which I’ll excerpt a bit here, but you can go check out the article hereīrahms originally composed the Two Sonatas, Op. What resulted was probably the first full-fledged sonata form for the instrument, and they are both a mainstay in viola repertoire. ![]() The Brahms Viola Sonatas were transcribed from clarinet after insistence from the publisher and most likely Brahms was looking for some extra money.
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