Piano - Grades 6-8+ Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Edited by Howard Ferguson. ABRSM Signature Series. Sheet Music. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) (PE.9781854723345).

Piano Solo Series: Editions Durand Publisher: Editions Durand Composer: Claude Debussy Piano Level: Advanced

By Johann Sebastian Bach Transcr. Franz Liszt Series: Dover Edition Category: Piano Collection Format: Book Instrument: 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!