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Brahms, Johannes: Piano Pieces op. 119

sheet music

op. 46. op. 55
Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 30 pages
Weight: 0.148 kg
Published: 2015
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1250
Other reference: HN 1250
ISMN: 9790201812502
Johannes Brahms’ summer sojourn in 1893 in Bad Ischl was productive. Alongside the pieces op. 118, he also wrote his last cycle of piano pieces, opus 119. The composer wrote to Clara Schumann of the opening work, saying that it was teeming withdissonances and that: ''every measure and every note must sound like a ritardando, as if one wanted to suck the melancholy out of each single one, with lust and pleasure out of the aforementioned dissonances!'' Yet opus 119 contains something for everymood
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