Johannes Brahms

Around 1850, Brahms was encouraged by the father of his piano pupil and friend Alwin Cranz, the Hamburg music publisher August Cranz, to "prepare popular opera melodies in a tasty way for the little o...

Erstausgabe. Spielpartitur

This timely addition to the Brahms Centennial contains the composer's ever-popular waltzes in his own simplified arrangements as well as lovely miniatures of an astonishing range and variety, offering...

This timely addition to the Brahms Centennial contains the composer's ever-popular waltzes in his own simplified arrangements as well as lovely miniatures of an astonishing range and variety, offering...

für Klavier zu vier Händen. Urtextausgabe

für Klavier zu vier Händen. Urtextausgabe

It is not surprising that Johannes Brahms, an exponent of Romanticism, took a particular interest in piano music, as the piano enjoyed great popularity among the rising bourgeoisie of the 19th century...

The four "Ballades" for piano op. 10 are Brahms' contribution to the instrumental ballad form popular in the mid-19th century. Brahms used the more intimate vocal form as a model for the works compose...

Brahms arranged the popular 16 "Waltzes" op. 39, composed in 1866 for piano four hands, for two hands just one year later and produced an easier version at the publisher's request. Brahms himself desc...

Brahms arranged the popular 16 "Waltzes" op. 39, composed in 1866 for piano four hands, for two hands just one year later and produced an easier version at the publisher's request. Brahms himself desc...

In his research, Christopher Hogwood drew on a source that George Bozarth drew attention to in spring 2011 and which had remained unpublished until then. During a concert tour that the young Brahms un...

The pianist Christian Köhn, who is very familiar with Brahms' piano works, has now published a new edition of these variations on the eight-bar theme from Handel's Suite No. 1 ("Suite de pièces de Cla...

Brahms' spirited Rhapsodies op. 79 from 1879 are among the composer's most frequently performed works. For a long time, he could not quite decide on a suitable title and wavered between Piano Piece, C...

Mit Fingersätzen.

The piano pieces op. 116 to 119 were composed in 1892/93 and are the last collections that Brahms dedicated to the instrument. In terms of composition, the turn to the small form is particularly remar...

The piano pieces op. 116 to 119 were composed in 1892/93 and are the last collections that Brahms dedicated to the instrument. Compositionally, the turn to the "small form" is particularly noteworthy...

With fingerings.

The piano pieces op. 116 to 119 were composed in 1892/93 and are the last collections that Brahms dedicated to the instrument. In terms of composition, the turn to the "small form" is particularly rem...