Series: Kalmus Edition Category: Piano Collection Format: Book Instrument: Piano By Domenico Scarlatti

Difficulty: 2-8 Edition type: urtext edition Edition Info: Edited by Reinhold Brinkmann Fingering and interpretation advice by Peter Roggenkamp

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!

By Catherine Rollin Series: Museum Masterpieces Category: Piano Collection Format: Book Instrument: Piano Level: Late Intermediate 8 Piano Solos Inspired by Great Works of Art