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2nd Movement: Andante Moderato
A requiem style movement with a phrygian sound from the horns, this has a modified sonata form with no development section.
[edit]3rd Movement:Allegro giocoso
This which was written last, resounds with a triangle. It is also in sonata form.
[edit]4th Movement: Allegro Energico e passionato
This last movement isnotable as a rare example of a symphonic passacaglia, which is similar to a chaconne with the slight difference that the subject can appear in more voices than the bass. A uniquething is that even though it is in E minor it actually has an E major 7th chord at the very end which can be heard at the beginning, middle and right at the very end with adramatic finish. For the repeating theme, Brahms adapted the chaconne theme in the closing movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150.
Ananalysis of this last movement by Walter Frisch provides yet further interpretation to Brahms' structure of this work, by giving sections sonata form dimensions.
The symphony isrich in allusions, most notably to various Beethoven compositions. The symphony may well have been inspired by the play Antony and Cleopatra that Brahms had been researching atthe time.[1]
Arnold Schoenberg, in his essay Brahms the Progressive (Brahms is often characterized as being a conservative composer), pointed out several thematicrelationships in the score, as does Malcolm MacDonald in his biography of the composer. The first half of the chaconne theme is anticipated in the bass during the coda at an important pointof the preceding movement; and the first movement's descending thirds, transposed by a fifth, appear in counterpoint during one of the final variations of the chaconne.
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