Musikalischer Salon: Rückschau

In the organizer's words:

Johannes Brahms actually thought his creative work was finished after the Second String Quintet op. 111. The extraordinary abilities of Richard Mühlfeld, originally a violinist, who later trained as a self-taught virtuoso and probably the most successful clarinettist of his time, changed his mind. In a very short space of time, he wrote the quintet, which was soon interpreted as a "farewell to the beautiful world" due to its wistful, yearning and dramatic sounds.

Krzysztof Penderecki, who returned to chamber music in his late work, also described the fourth movement of his quartet for clarinet and string trio as a "farewell". Following the example of Béla Bartók, the Italian composer Luciano Berio also wrote violin duets. Bartók collected his melodies in Greater Hungary before the First World War, while Berio's duets, titled with first names, suggest small musical portraits of companions.

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