SERENADE No.1 (score & parts)

The serenade was originally written for a chamber group, a nonet of wind and strings (Fl./2Cl./Bsn/Hn/Vn/Va/Ce./Bass). Brahms completed this version in 1858, sent it to his publishers and it was performed in concert in Hamburg in 1859 but not well received. However, a year later he had added a second flute, two oboes, a second bassoon, three horns, two trombones, a timpani and a full orchestra of strings. It is this version that was finally published and is the one we know today. The score of the nonet was lost, quite possibly destroyed by Brahms himself unlike some who retained their sketches, he habitually destroyed completed scores that he subsequently changed.
The nonet was abnormal in that it had two clarinets and no oboes, unusual but a cursory examination of today's score quickly explains why. Brahms uses the clarinet pair in ways that demonstrate his complete understanding of the tonal qualities of the instrument that he was later to use to the full in the symphonies, th

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