Why Listen to Brahms?

Where to Start with Classical Music? - https://www.insidethescore.com/14-pieces Master Your Ear, Writing, and Musicianship - https://www.insidethescore.com/musica... 11 Rules for Composing Success - https://www.insidethescore.com/11-rules Support this Channel -   / insidethescore   Join the Discord -   / discord   This video looks at the importance of Johannes Brahms, in the context of the War of the Romantics (against Wagner and Liszt, supported by Schumann and Mendelssohn), and also looking closer at his Geistliches Lied, and his First Symphony, the Symphony No. 1 in C minor. We look at how Brahms' music is motivic, using motifs and tiny cells to weave extraordinary tapestries of motivic music.