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Brahms, Johannes: Fantasies op. 116

sheet music

Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 36 pages
Weight: 0.158 kg
Published: 2015
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1216
Other reference: HN 1216
ISMN: 9790201812168
Johannes Brahms presumably wrote the Fantasies op. 116 at the same time as the Intermezzi op. 117 in the summer of 1892 in Bad Ischl. His sojourn in the Salzkammergut obviously inspired Brahms to write music for solo piano, as a year later he workedon other cycles when he was there. Amongst these late melancholy piano pieces, op. 116 is in particular characterised by opposites. Four ''dreamy'' ╩ according to Clara Schumann ╩ intermezzi are juxtaposed with three ''deeply passionate'' capricci. Se
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