Musical Sunday

As if in a compositional frenzy, the 22-year-old Brahms threw himself into chamber music, specifically into a genre that had previously been rather neglected: the piano quartet. Instead of a single work, he conceived three, which together cover an entire panorama of human passions: Melancholy, despair, anger, but also exuberant joie de vivre and humor. Brahms only found a convincing final version for all three pieces after a considerable period of maturation. While op. 25 and op. 26 are among his most popular chamber music works, primarily because of their “Hungarian” final movements, the highly emotional, autobiographically based C minor Quartet op. 60 has remained an insider tip to this day.

At Musical Sunday at the DAI Heidelberg, two music enthusiasts will have their say and delve deep into the respective works with the audience: Marcus Imbsweiler publishes novels, including stories about composers