Analysis Of The Command And Processing Of The Fourth Movement Of Brahms' Second Symphony

Johannes Brahms?German;7 May 1833–3 April 1897?was a German composer and pianist who was Born in Hamburg.His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the"Three Bs"of music,a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.The Symphony No.2 in D major,Op.73,was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877,during a visit to P?rtschach am W?rthersee,a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia.Its composition was brief in comparison with the fifteen years it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony.When it comes to the learning of the Symphony No.2,it is found that the Symphony No.2 is quite difficult for students to understand its style and suitable form to perform it clearly.A detailed research and analysis is needed.Therefore,this paper focused on the research on 4^th movement of the Symphony No.2 according to three conductors'videos:Carlos Kleiber,Leonard Bernstein and Christian Thielemann.It is expected that this paper may help students with their study of the Symphony No.2.This paper can be divided into three main parts.Firstly,Brahms'life was sketched,some analyses on 4^th movement were done,and three conductors,Carlos Kleiber,Leonard Bernstein,and Christian Thielemann,were briefly introduced.Then,the paper analyzed 4^th movement according to three conductors'video,Carlos Kleiber,Leonard Bernstein&Christian Thielemann,and a summary of those videos was shown in this part.Finally,strong points of these conductors were presented for although their styles differ from each other,they all could perform very well and have their own shinning points,which is worth learning for us.