Brahmgneriana

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The week following Brahms' birthday and anticipating Wagner's one may be the right moment to promote "Brahmgneriana," a "Camp David" reconciliation of the two composers. As with other specimens of creative musicology, "Brahmgneriana" replaces the museum paradigm of the canon with a pool of musical narratives that the creative mind freely rearranges, creating new associations and hermeneutic possibilities. This approach can help advanced students defamiliarize the canon and thus reconsider it from a fresh perspective.

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