At university we called this The Chicken Salad Song, for no good reason at all, save that the word ‘Schicksalslied’ sounds a bit like ‘Chicken Salad’ and the Lied means song. We thought we were at the cutting edge of musical thinking… Around the late 1860s, Brahms found himself falling in love with Julie, the daughter of … Continue reading Brahms – Schicksalslied (1871)