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The violin and violinists played an important role throughout Brahms’s life and musical development. The great Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim was a major persona throughout Brahms’s life and became one of his closest friends and confidantes. The thread of their mutual influence is woven through this entire program. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster David McCarroll, […]

Pre-concert Discussion with Barbara Nissman at 2:30 p.m. Brahms was age forty before he grew his famous beard, and his more youthful music is often fiery and temperamental. Barbara Nissman brings her charisma and panache to Piano Sonata no. 3, written when the composer had just turned twenty. Brahms waited for fifteen years before completing […]