Johannes Brahms and Eduard Reményi — Robert Greenberg: Music As A Mirror of History

A brief excerpt from “Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861)” from the new “Music As A Mirror of History” series from The Great Courses which focuses on a fateful meeting between Johannes Brahms and Hungarian refugee and violinist Eduard Reményi. Full Course available at https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/?p=2610 See more courses at http://www.robertgreenbergmusic.com Music As A Mirror of History Lecture 11: Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861) As the prelude to a fateful episode in the life of Johannes Brahms, explore the 19th-century Hungarian nationalist movement, highlighting the revolutionary initiatives of Lajos Kossuth, icon of the 1848 revolt against Austrian domination. Witness how Brahms’s meeting with the Hungarian refugee and violinist Eduard Reményi ignited the composer’s longtime love affair with Hungarian gypsy music, epitomized in the electrifying finale to his G Minor Piano Quartet.