By Charles-Louis Hanon Edited by Allan Small Series: Alfred Masterwork Edition Category: Piano Collection Format: Book Instrument: Piano Level: Intermediate / Late Intermediate

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

Brahms’s music does not have to be difficult or melancholy – our selection here proves it. Even less advanced pianists will find playable, immediately appealing pieces amongst his works for piano.

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!