Dancing on the graves

August 15, 2012

Brahms left slim pickings for the musical grave-robber. He composed in his head, not in a notebook – directly to his C:\\, as it were. Brahms also burned his sketches – reducing PhD candidates to tears. He also admitted to destroying dozens of completed works that fell short of his own exacting standards. Sibelius, too, […]

2012 | Quartets Series | Tags: adolphe, brentano quartet, fragments, gubaidulina, harbison, hartke, iyer, Keith Horner, wuorinen