Composer: Stephen Heller Format: Book

Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Walther Lampe Pages: 29

Composer: Robert Schumann 收錄阿貝格變奏曲、蝴蝶、六首間奏曲、依克拉拉．威克主題的即興曲、觸技曲、交響練習曲、幽默曲、維也納狂歡節的『小丑劇幻想情景』。

The instrumental ballad was a popular musical form in the 19th century and these four pieces for piano are Brahms’s only contribution to the genre. The composer wrote the ballades during the time of his close friendship with Clara Schumann, and they exude an intimacy more typical of a vocal ballad. The pieces, which Schumann enthusiastically praised, were described by Brahms as being “not too difficult to play and even less difficult to understand.”