The Scottish ballad “Edward” from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs “Stimmen der Völker in Liedern” made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effortlessly.
Johannes Brahms presumably wrote the Fantasies Op. 116 at the same time as the Intermezzi Op. 117 in the summer of 1892 in Bad Ischl. His sojourn in the Salzkammergut obviously inspired Brahms to write music
Song List:
Brahms: Capriccio d minor op. 116,1
Brahms: Capriccio d minor op. 116,7
Brahms: Capriccio g minor op. 116,3
Brahms: Intermezzo a minor op. 116,2
Brahms:
When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 - the Piano Pieces op. 118 -, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the first to
Johannes Brahms' piano sonatas were among the 20-year-old composer's first publications. They were written in 1852-53, with the slow movement of this C major Sonata, which used the song “Verstohlen geht der Mond auf,” bearing the earliest date, April 1852
Composer: Johannes BrahmsEditors: Johannes Behr, Johannes Umbreit, Lars Vogt
Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: “... a second one will sound different.” Neverthele
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
Brahms mainly composed the eight Piano Pieces op. 76 in summer 1878 in the summer resort of Pörtschach at Lake Wörth. Theodor Billroth, a close friend, was enthusiastic about the new works: “These are magnifi
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the then 20-year-old composer published. Much of themusic of the f-minor Sonata is closely connected to Brahms's visit to Robert and Clara Schumann
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms' Piano Sonatas, Op. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53, although this “Sonata in F-sharp minor” was apparently the first of the three to
Brahms‘ first piano works deal with the classical form of the sonata. The Scherzo op. 4 belongs to this context inasmuch as it can be considered as an independent sonata movement. However, with the melody of the Old German Minnelied
Song List:
Brahms: Ballad B major op. 10,4
Brahms: Ballad D major op. 10,2
Brahms: Ballad [Edward-Ballad] d minor op. 10,1
Brahms: Ballad [Intermezzo] b minor op. 10,
Song List:
Brahms: Ballad B major op. 10,4
Brahms: Ballad D major op. 10,2
Brahms: Ballad [Edward-Ballad] d minor op. 10,1
Brahms: Ballad [Intermezzo] b minor op. 10,
Brahms's First String Sextet became very popular after its publication in 1861, yet his publisher Simrock still hesitated when the composer offered him a second such work in 1865, “in the same cheerful mood”
Composer: Johannes BrahmsArranger: Johannes Brahms
Editors: Andreas Groethuysen, Robert Pascall
In order to also promote the circulation of his works outside the concert hall, Johannes Brahms made piano arrangements of many of his orchestral works. As t
Brahms' creative arrangements of his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 in a new Urtext edition. The scholarly musical text follows the recently published volume in the Brahms Complete Edition.
In 1879, about ten years before Johannes Brahms composed his late, melancholic piano pieces, he wrote the two Rhapsodies op. 79 – two markedly passionate and comparatively extensiv
Composer: Johannes Brahms
“Do you love Brahms?” The majority of music lovers will answer “yes”, and they might be thinking of the Waltz op. 39 no. 15 its gently rocking melody is one of Brahmss most famous inspirations. Both original versions of this po
Following the publication of the 16 Waltzes for piano four hands, Brahms' publisher succeeded in persuading the composer to do a version for piano solo. After initially hesitating, Brahms suggested two versio
