- Elegy for Brahms is a work for orchestra written shortly after Brahms‘s death in 1897. Parry greatly admired the late composer and was inspired to pay homage.
- However, Parry would never see it performed during his lifetime. Parry got sidetracked by a commission and never returned to the work before his own death in 1918.
- Interestingly, Elegy for Brahms received its first performance in 1918 at a memorial concert for Parry, not Brahms, at the Royal College of Music.
- Within Parry’s score, the composer quotes Brahms on several instances, and the “the spirit of Brahms hovers over everything.”1
Sources
- Phillip Brookes, “Preface: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Elegy for Brahms (1897),” Musikproduktion Höflich (2019), accessed October 23, 2024, https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/product/parry-charles-hubert-13/.
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