For his son, a talented clarinet player, this composer wrote his Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano.
For his son, a talented clarinet player, this composer wrote his Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano. Willy Hess premiered the A minor violin Serenade of this composer, whose Opus 46 includes a second movement Adagio cantabile that quotes the folk song "Hey, the Dusty Miller." During his lifetime, he was renowned for his secular oratorio Odysseus, although he's better known today for a chamber work whose second melody quotes Isaac Nathan's arrangement of "O Weep for Those Who Wept on Babel's Stream." Like Brahms, he wrote a violin concerto for Joseph Joachim; that G minor concerto begins with a movement marked Vorspiel. The novels of Walter Scott inspired this composer's Scottish Fantasy. He also composed an "adagio for cello and orchestra" which sets a Jewish prayer recited on Yom Kippur. For 10 points, name this late Romantic German composer known for his first violin concerto and his composition Kol Nidrei.
For his son, a talented clarinet player, this composer wrote his Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano.
Max Bruch