2 Pianos, 8 Hands/Early Advanced Level Series: Willis Publisher: Willis Music Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer Arranger: A. Sartorio Piano Level: Early Advanced

Difficulty: 4-8 Edition type: urtext edition WVZ: D 899, D 935, D 780 Opus: op. 90, op. post. 142, op. 94

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!

Piano Solo Series: Piano Solo Publisher: Editions Salabert Composer: Francis Poulenc