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Brahms Symphony No. 2 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast by Joshua Weilerstein

Feb 19, 202658:32Music

Brahms spent much of his adult life battling with his ambition to write the next great symphony and his terror at the shadow of Beethoven standing behind him. Brahms tortured himself for 14 years with his first symphony,...

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