Johannes Brahms's Trio in B major, Op. 8, is both the composer's earliest and latest piano trio. It exists in two completely different versions, from 1854 and 1889, although today the later version is generally considered "Opus 8." Brahms completed the original version of the trio in January 1854, three months after his first meeting with Robert Schumann in Düsseldorf and under the influence of the developing artistic friendship with his mentor. In later years, Brahms grew tired of his "loquacious" early work and finally subjected it to a revision in 1889 that included significant changes. The way in which the 53-year-old Brahms altered his own early work through radical interventions is one of the few cases of unrestrainedly open self-criticism by an artist. "As a whole, the new B major Trio is an incomparable testament to his artistic openness and honesty, with which he not only confesses but also shows us directly what he didn't do right in his youth," wrote Brahms's friend Eusebius Mandyczewski, librarian of the Friends of Music in Vienna.

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