How composers talk each to other. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 D-major and Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 D-major op. 73
2002
Abstract
Comparative analysis of works composed by two great contemporaries reveal the fact that Dvořák's 6th Symphony represented an original 'reply' to the 2nd Symphony by Brahms. The common backround to which both works are related is Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' by L. van Beethoven.