Studies On Creative Features And Playing Characteristics Of Brahms' "Piano Rhapsody"

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897), German composer and pianist, loved national culture. His music has made brilliant achievements, which has deeply influenced a whole generation of composers with its charm of musical style and authority. In the nineteenth century during the German and Austrian Romantic Period, Johannes Brahms is often seen as a conservative traditionalist music creators and the "last man" among the German classical composers in numerous research comments. This evaluation is not comprehensive, since it ignored the spirit of innovation in Brahms'music. In effect, Brahms's music both has traditional aspects and aspect of innovation as well. In some works of Brahms, we can obviously feel the romantic feelings. This article attempts to get help from Brahms'writing background and creation environment .Take Brahms'"Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1)for example, this essay tries to probe into its creative features and playing characteristics from the dual viewpoints of classicism and romanticism to further improve my music accomplishment and research levels .Meanwhile, I wish that it can bring a little bit of assistance for the researchers of Brahms. I expect that this will raise attention from more scholars and welcome criticism on my article.This article involves four chapters.ChapterⅠ: Brahms and the creative background of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1).This section briefly describes Brahms's life, and analyzes his living conditions and creation background for a more comprehensive introduction to the creation of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1).ChapterⅡ: The creative features of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1).This section studies and analyzes "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1)from the melody and rhythm, harmony and musical form, symphonic characteristic features and other aspects to demonstrates that it has both inner beauty of the classical music and a romantic flavor of the times.ChapterⅢ: The playing characteristics of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1).This section analyzes its playing characteristics by understanding the performance introduction of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1), grasping a variety of techniques, handling the styles and other aspects. Only with the playing characteristics can the players more accurately convey the musical mood, highlight the infinite charm of Brahms music.The last section demonstrates the innovativeness of Brahms'music- Brahms uses strict classical musical structure to create music with romantic feelings by analyzing the creative features and playing characteristics of "Piano Rhapsody" (Op.79.No.1).Brahms was a great reformer. His music not only had a significant and far-reaching impact on the 20^th century music, but also set off people to "hear" Brahms, to re-examine the boom of Brahms'music.