Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Walther Lampe, Klaus Schilde, Hans-Martin Theopold Pages: 242

Edition type: urtext edition Edition Info: Based on autographs and Original Edition, edited by Peter Williams. Consultation on the interpretation of the sources by Terence Best; with fingering and comments on interpretation

Composed by Béla Bartók Editor: Yusuke Nakahara Format: Book

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!