Sonatas, Scherzo and Ballades
Piano Solo Softcover Edition
by Johannes Brahms
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Item Number: 3763039
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Piano solo (Piano solo) - SMP Level 10 (Advanced)

SKU: HL.51480038

Piano Solo Softcover Edition. Composed by Johannes Brahms. Edited by Walter Georgii. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. ABRSM syllabus Grade: 8. Classical. Softcover. 130 pages. G. Henle #HN38. Published by G. Henle (HL.51480038).

ISBN 9790201800387. UPC: 884088172466. 9.25x12.25 inches.

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 “Verstohlen geht der Mond auf” used for the slow movement of the first sonata, and the lines from a poem by Sternau that preface the second movement of the Sonata op. 5, Brahms also proclaims his allegiance to Romanticism. The push-and-pull between Classicism and Romanticism then becomes clearly audible in the opp. 1, 2, 4 and 5. In contrast, the Ballades op. 10, written just barely a year after the Sonata op.5, are thorougly romantic piano pieces. The best known is certainly no. 1, based on the Scottish ballad Edward from Herder's “Stimmen der Völker.&rdquo.

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About SMP Level 10 (Advanced)

Very advanced level, very difficult note reading, frequent time signature changes, virtuosic level technical facility needed.

  • Ballad [Edward ballad], D minor, op. 10,1 (Piano solo)
  • Ballad, D major, op. 10,2 (Piano solo)
  • Ballad [Intermezzo], B minor, op. 10,3 (Piano solo)
  • Ballad, B major, op. 10,4 (Piano solo)
  • Scherzo, E flat minor, op. 4 (Piano solo)
  • Sonata, C major, op. 1 (Piano solo)
  • Sonata, F sharp minor, op. 2 (Piano solo)
  • Sonata, F minor, op. 5 (Piano solo)