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J. Brahms - Opus 82 - Nänie

Brahms' Nänie, for four-voice choir and orchestra, was composed in 1880-81 and published in 1881. It received its first performance on December 6, 1881 in Zurich. Setting a text by Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), Nänie was intended as a eulogy for Brahms' friend, the painter Anselm Feuerbach, who died in January 1880. The score is dedicated to Feuerbach's mother. Brahms completed Nänie in the summer of 1881, after a visit to Italy in the early spring. On February 14, 1880 Brahms heard Hermann Goetz's setting of Schiller's Nänie in Vienna. The concert did more than give Brahms an idea for a text, for the two pieces bear significant similarities. For instance, both employ chorus and orchestra, both use a rising melody at the poem's central point, where the daughters of Nereus rise from the sea, both move to F sharp major for a middle section, and both shift between 4/4 and 6/4 meter. Schiller's poem is a dirge for Adonis, beginning, "Auch das Schöne muss sterben" (Beauty must also die), a line undoubtedly associated by Brahms with the death of Feuerbach. Nänie is the last of Brahms' choral works to use a classical source. Brahms divides Schiller's seven couplets into three sections, the first of which sets four couplets, the second two, the final couplet treated singly. The overall musical form of Nänie is ABA', with the outer sections in D major and 6/4 meter, the central in F sharp major and 4/4 meter. Brahms often chose 6/4 meter for his most profound statements, notably in his Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45. As in the Requiem, Brahms' writing for the chorus is generally polyphonic and occasionally even fugal. Performers: The Monteverdi Choir Conductor: John Elliot Gardiner