Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold Pages: 35

By Ludwig van Beethoven / ed. Ferruccio Busoni Series: Kalmus Edition Category: Piano Solo Instrument: Piano Level: Intermediate / Advanced

Editor: Margit L. McCorkle Fingering: Detlef Kraus Pages: 34

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 with dissonances 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! Dimensions : 24 x 31 x 0.5 cm