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Masterclass: Rainer Moog on Brahms’s Viola Sonata in F minor op.120 no.1

2021-08-11T11:09:00

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Viola pedagogue Rainer Moog revisits the original score for clarinet and reveals some alterations that may be better left unchanged, in this article from the August 2015 issue of The Strad

Brahms had decided to make the op.111 G major String Quintet his last work, perhaps owing to a series of personal losses in 1880s. But not long afterwards, at the age of 57, he met the principal clarinettist of Germany’s Meiningen Court Orchestra, Richard Mühlfeld…

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