Brahms's Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118, were completed in 1893 and published with a dedication to
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic music, Romantic era, she exerted her influence o ...
. The set was the penultimate of Brahms's published works. It was also his penultimate work for piano solo.
The pieces are frequently performed. Like Brahms's other late keyboard works, Op. 118 is more introspective than his earlier piano pieces, which tend to be more virtuosic in character. The six pieces are:
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Intermezzo
In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...
in A minor. ''Allegro non assai, ma molto appassionato''
# Intermezzo in A major. ''Andante teneramente''
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Ballade (classical music), Ballade in G minor. ''Allegro energico''
# Intermezzo in F minor. ''Allegretto un poco agitato''
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Romanze in F major. ''Andante''
# Intermezzo in E minor. ''Andante, largo e mesto''
External links
* A public domain engraving of the second piece using
GNU LilyPond i
availablefrom the
Mutopia Project
The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books. It started in 2000.
The music is reproduced from old scores that are in th ...
in several formats.
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*, performed by Garrick Ohlsson
*, piano soloist: Carter Johnson
*, performed by Arcadi Volodos
Detailed Listening Guideusing the recording by Martin Jones
* Recordings of Klavierstucke Op.118 ar
availablefrom th
Piano Societyas well as from thi
website
Piano pieces by Johannes Brahms
Compositions for solo piano
1893 compositions
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