Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (4th and 5th Movement) - Johannes B...

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (4th and 5th Movement) - Johannes Brahms | Music Sheet IV. Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto V. Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto (B♭ minor) Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato (F minor, ending in F major) Movements The Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 of Johannes Brahms was written in 1853 and published the following year. The sonata is unusually large, consisting of five movements, as opposed to the traditional three or four. When he wrote this piano sonata, the genre was seen by many to be past its heyday. Brahms, enamored of Beethoven and the classical style, composed Piano Sonata No. 3 with a masterful combination of free Romantic spirit and strict classical architecture. IV. Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto (B♭ minor) - The fourth movement is marked as an intermezzo and is given the title "Rückblick", literally "Remembrance". It begins with the initial theme of the second movement, but in the key of B♭ minor. Like the opening and third movements, the "fate motif" figures prominently throughout the intermezzo. V. Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato (F minor, ending in F major) The fifth and final movement is a rondo in the home key of F minor. It explores several ideas that become intertwined in the virtuosic and triumphant close. Notably, the first diversion from the rondo theme begins with a musical cryptogram that was a personal musical motto of his lifelong friend Joseph Joachim, the F–A–E theme, which stands for Frei aber einsam (free but lonely). Music Sheet