A fifth symphony?

[Horace]

Brahms tossed into the fireplace reams of compositions he didn't want polluting his oeuvre.

[George K]

@Horace said in A fifth symphony?:

Brahms tossed into the fireplace reams of compositions he didn't want polluting his oeuvre.

Yes. And his close friend, surgeon Theodor Billroth, who was an amateur composer did the same. He asked Brahms for an opinion on one of his compositions. Brahms said, basically, "Stick to surgery."

Billroth followed his advice. "I took my latest composition and threw it into the fireplace, whence it emitted a great stench."

But, any thoughts on "the tune?"

[Axtremus]

Brahms is dead.
Why won't the world just give it up?
Just set it down, run along, and go away already.

[Renauda]

@Axtremus

Quite right, Brahms the person and composer is stone cold dead. However. musicology as a study and academic discipline is not. So when lost fragments or incomplete compositions attributable to a dead composer are discovered, the artist’s muse becomes very much alive.

[George K]

OK you losers. Play the tune.

[Renauda]

I did noodle it out on the keyboard. Like I said, interesting. In my hands it is nothing. In the skilled hands of a real musician, it could be something of great interest. I am sure Ax could do just that with the fragment posted.

[George K]

The tune:

***VERY NSFW***

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[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in A fifth symphony?:

The tune:

***VERY NSFW***

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Almost as old as the Brahams thing, that chestnut.

[Renauda]

I didn’t recognise the tune at all.

In fact I never heard the tune I my life until I joined PW and it was fasionable to Rick Roll posters. Never realised it was a rip off of a Brahms fragment.

The pop arrangement is truly forgettable.

[Mik]

@Aqua-Letifer said in A fifth symphony?:

@George-K said in A fifth symphony?:

The tune:

***VERY NSFW***

click to show

Link to video

Almost as old as the Brahams thing, that chestnut.

In this case, one might call it older.