Possibly the most disputed feature which even keeps theorists in a dilemma, on Brahms’s second piano concerto, opus 83, is the formal structure of the last movement, Allegretto grazioso: “Sonata-rondo or sonata-allegro?” ...

The nearest point of a subject, exhibiting a time-wise dimension, to audience is the ending. In other words, our final visual or aural contact with the subject is the ending. Therefore, the first thing we recall of a subject ...