The third movement of this composer's first cello sonata begins by quoting Contrapunctus 13 from The Art of the Fugue.
The third movement of this composer's first cello sonata begins by quoting Contrapunctus 13 from The Art of the Fugue. This composer used the cello solo from the third movement of one of his piano concertos as the basis for the song Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer. His second piano concerto begins with a solo French horn playing a theme echoed by the piano, and includes a second movement he jokingly called a "little wisp of a scherzo." At the age of twenty, this composer was introduced to the music world by the 1853 article "New Paths" in the New Journal for Music. The critic Eduard Hanslick championed this composer's "absolute" music against the supporters of Wagner. After the death of his close friend Robert Schumann, he fell in love with Schumann's wife Clara. For 10 points, name this German composer of twenty-one Hungarian Dances and a renowned lullaby.
The third movement of this composer's first cello sonata begins by quoting Contrapunctus 13 from The Art of the Fugue.
Johannes Brahms