Classical music thread [I Love Classical Music]

@Grvstu Brahms certainly thought so. Thank you for posting.

I believe it was Brahms who said that if he only had imagined he’s have written something like it he would’ve died of happiness@Mugin16

@Grvstu There was an interesting play in London recently called Bach and his Sons. In it, the chaconne was presented as having been written in memory of his first wife. I don’t know if that’s true or authenticated.

@Grvstu “On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind. If one doesn’t have the greatest violinist around, then it is well the most beautiful pleasure to simply listen to its sound in one’s mind.” - Johannes Brahms


https://onbeing.org/blog/the-story-behind-bachs-monumental-chaconne/

@MartinII "Bach composed the chaconne sometime between 1718 and 1720. Historians speculate that Bach composed it after returning from a trip and found his wife (and the mother of seven of his children) Maria Barbara had died."

https://onbeing.org/blog/the-story-behind-bachs-monumental-chaconne/

@Mugin16 Yes, that’s how it was presented in the play.