By Camille Saint-Saëns Series: Dover Edition Category: Piano Collection Format: Book Instrument: Piano Level: Advanced

With a CD of Performances Series: Schirmer Performance Editions Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc. Format: Softcover with CD Composer: Claude Debussy Editor: Christopher Harding

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

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!