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!
By Felix Mendelssohn
Edited by Maurice Hinson
Series: Alfred Masterwork Edition
Category: Piano Collection
Format: Comb Bound Book
Instrument: Piano
Level: Intermediate / Early Advanced