While the musical world of Europe could not produce stars (?) after the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, Brahms (7th) and Wagner were born in May. While Wagner was a ‘reformed’ composer following the Romantic opera pioneer Weber, Brahms was a complete ‘conservative’ following the former generation of composers including Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. They formed the two prominent musicians in the Romantic music world of the late 19th century.
Wagner showed talents in various fields, and he was devoted to Nazism and anti-Semitism while befriended with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he even involved himself in the revolutionary movement of the reconstructing a united Germany by Bismarck. Due to these inclinations, Hitler was an adherent of Wagner who would even memorize the 3-hour amount of the opera Lohengrin, and immediately after coming into power in 1934, went to the widowed wife of Wagner, Cosima, to become her guardian. Now you know the reason Israel hates Wagner’s music and why the prelude of Wagner’s Act 1 of Lohengrin was played in the New York Philharmonic Pyongyang performance in 2008.
The most typical wedding march played during the entrance of the bride in the western countries (commonly known as “Here Comes the Bride”) is originally the “Bridal Chorus” of Wagner Lohengrin, and is of course the forbidden music in Israel. In contrast, the wedding march by Mendelssohn played at the exit of the bride and the groom is the 10th piece of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and it was forbidden in Germany during Hitler’s control due to the fact that Mendelssohn was a Jewish. South Korea is the only country that enjoys playing both pieces at the beginning and the end of the wedding.
Brahms was given the chance to succeed at a relatively older age of 20 when he was introduced in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik after gaining acceptance from Schumann when Joachim introduced to him. Brahms, who was not a prodigy as a child and who was well-known at a later age, was modest, and he devoted himself to taking care of the bereaved family after his mentor Schumann passed away from a mental disease. He later fell in love with the widow Clara Schumann, but after all remained single and died of liver cancer one year after Clara’s death. Due to his personalities, Brahms was able to complete the tradition of symphony after Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann including sonata, chamber music and symphony, which were different from what spread like an epidemic of the time, opera and symphonic poems like Wagner. Also in 1889, the Hungarian Dance, the piano piece that Brahms personally played himself, became the first ever recorded piece in the phonograph Edison invented. The popularity of music started as this came out as LPs. Brahms usually wrote sulky and heavy pieces, but he also showed incredible capability in gypsy style music such as the Hungarian Dance, and he was a lifelong friend with the king of waltz, Johann Strauss II. In contrast to Wagner who spoke ill of him in public, Brahms, being a reserved man, remained silent.
While Beethoven was the dominant composer of music in the first half of the 19th century, the second half was dominated by Wagner; and although very arrogant, it was forgettable because of his greatness. However, the pieces by Brahms are more commonly played repertoire in the contemporary music world.
The generally known relationship of the rivalry of the Brahms’ and the Wagner factions was in fact made by the surrounding people rather than their own; in fact, Brahms liked Wagner’s work and enjoyed going to his operas.
The major buildings in Boston are colleges and hospitals, and Boston is known as the coexisting city of competition and cooperation. The logic here is that cooperation is necessary in order to compete. The two representative hospitals of the Harvard Medical School, BWH and MGH, have cooperated in the name of Partners, and Joslin Diabetes Center, finding the common denominator with BWH, has also began the cooperative diagnosis in February this year. Also, Harvard University has the cross registration system with the nearby MIT, Boston University, Boston College, and Tufts University that the Endocrinology class that I am currently attending is composed of half Harvard Medical School students and half MIT students (Medical Science). It is expressed as the strategic cooperation to compete with the world.
The party in celebration of the publication of the joint book ‘Textbook of Geriatric Medicine’ by Professors Cho Kyung Hwan and Kim Sun Mi (currently studying in the Harvard Medical School) of Korea University Hospital, and Professor Juergen Bludau of the Harvard Medical School held in the Harvard Faculty Club in May 11th is another cooperative achievement. Congratulations.
In June was born Schumann (June 8th, 1810), who made known to the world the genius of Brahms (introduced today) and Chopin (introduced in Boston and Musician 2). In June of 2003, the artificial kidney center was established in Haenam General Hospital, and the hospital became a cooperative hospital with Samsung Seoul Hospital. Boston and Musician 5 is about the great female artists including Fanny Mendelssohn (the sister of Mendelssohn), George Sand, the lover of Chopin, and Clara Schumann (the wife of Schumann), the greatest pianist of the time.
May 23, 2010, Yang Tae Young, Boston
Department of internal medicine, taeyoung21 clinic, currently studying at the Harvard Medical School Joslin Diabetes Center
1) In 1878, Edison succeeded the recording of the song ‘Mary had a little lamb’ for the first time, and the performance by Brahms was the first recording by a musician.
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