Series: Schirmer Performance Editions Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc. Format: Softcover Composer: Dmitri Kabalevsky Editor: Richard Walters Piano Level: Intermediate

Instrumentation: Piano Composed by Dmitri Kabalevsky Edited by Keith Snell. Format: Book Level or Grade: Intermediate Series: Master Composer Library

Orchestration: Piano 4 hands Score maker / publisher: Christoph Dohr Edition No.: DOHR 26339 release date: 2006

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! Dimensions : 24 x 31 x 0.5 cm