The musical style of brahms's symphony no. 4 can be characterized as

The musical style of brahms's symphony no. 4 can be characterized as a synthesis of old and modern composition.

Explanation:

    Johannes Brahms was true to the essence of chamber music and some of its compositional techniques - such as the continuous variation of motifs and the diversity of repetition modes - that made it possible to construct a kind of musical prose free from traditional metric square procedures.

    Symphony No. 4 represents the culmination of Brahms production in the genre. It features the Passacaglia-shaped Finale - with a theme of eight measures and thirty variations - perhaps its most complete attempt to synthesize ancient and modern compositional practices.

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