The sonata was Schumann's idea as a gift and tribute to violinist Joseph Joachim, whom the three composers had recently befriended. Joachim had adopted the Romantic German phrase "Frei aber einsam" ("free but lonely") as his personal motto. The composition's movements are all based on the musical notes F-A-E, the motto's initials, as a musical cryptogram.
Date of composition | 1853 |
Premiered | 1853, October 28th in Düsseldorf, Germany |
First published | 1935 |
Type | Scherzo |
Catalogue | WoO 2 |
Instruments |
Violin
Piano |
Autotranslations beta |
Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata, WoO 2 Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata, WoO 2 Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata, WoO 2 |