Brahms- Symphony No.3 III Op. 90

Brahms's focus on orchestral compositions in 1880-85 was partly encouraged by his having a great orchestra at his disposal. In the later years Brahms preferred the natural beauty found in rural surroundings.

-The piece was composed because Brahms looked back onto his younger days with the musical quotation of the motto Frei aber froh (“Free but happy”). He wanted to keep writing as he did in his younger days. The premiere performance was given on 2 December 1883 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The premiere of the symphony as a whole was almost cancelled because, even though Wagner had died earlier that year, the public feud between Brahms and Wagner was still going on on and Wagner enthusiasts tried to interfere with the symphony's premiere, and the conflict nearly started fights. 
-The genre is an Orchestral symphony
-The form of the third movement is ternary (ABA). The opening cello theme aspires to be infinite. It's slow, twelve-measure unfolding arrives at no closure, but rather at more gestures in an upward direction. The theme ends with the expected tonic displaced up to an F and the dissonance is resolved as the theme begins again in the first violins. The opening theme is repeated without change until its conclusion where the tonic is heard in the "correct" spot. The central A-Major section is composed of offbeat accents, major-minor shifts, and cello counterpoint. The starting cello theme is then brought back.

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