WHRO - Edvard to the Rescue
Edvard to the Rescue May 7 on WHRO FM Although Brahms and Tchaikovsky share a birthday this month, the relationship between them was not always harmonious. The two embraced vastly different ideas of composition. Brahms felt as if he was continuing Beethoven’s legacy, and believed that music should be absolute with no extra meanings, music for music’s sake. It was another follower of Beethoven, though, that helped create the sound world of Tchaikovsky and many of his fellow composers. Hector Berlioz was an influential composer whose treatise on orchestration was lik...