Series: Joy Of Format: Sheet Music | Instrumental Album Published on: 12 March 1999 No of pages: 80 Language: English

Editor: Ferguson, Howard Series: ABRSM Keyboard Anthology • a collection of pieces which have been set for ABRSM’s piano exams over the years • three series, each containing five graded volumes and reflecting the wide variety of pieces on the syllabuses • the series concentrate on the baroque and romantic sections of the syllabus

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!

Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 2086 Series: Piano Collection Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc. Format: Softcover Composer: Aram Khachaturian