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Brahms: 4 Klavierstücke Op.119 No.1 Intermezzo in B minor - wind quintet
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Brahms: 4 Klavierstücke Op.119 No.1 Intermezzo in B minor - wind quintet by Johannes Brahms Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

By Johannes Brahms
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SKU: A0.1484496

Composed by Johannes Brahms. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 19th Century,Romantic Period. 11 pages. RayThompsonMusic #1061573. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1484496).

The Four Pieces for Piano (German: Klavierstücke) Op. 119, are four character pieces for piano composed by Johannes Brahms in 1893. The collection is the last composition for solo piano by Brahms. Together with the six pieces from Op. 118, Op. 119 was premiered in London in January 1894.

This is my arrangement of the 1st piece , an Intermezzo.

The poetic mood of the first intermezzo from Op. 119 belies its vague title. In a letter from May 1893 to Clara Schumann, Brahms wrote:

"I am tempted to copy out a small piano piece for you, because I would like to know how you agree with it. It is teeming with dissonances!
These may [well] be correct and [can] be explained—but maybe they won’t please your palate, and now I wished, they would be less correct, but more appetizing and agreeable to your taste.
The little piece is exceptionally melancholic and ‘to be played very slowly’ is not an understatement.
Every bar and every note must sound like a ritard[ando], as if one wanted to suck melancholy out of each and every one, lustily and with pleasure out of these very dissonances!
Good Lord, this description will [surely] awaken your desire!"

Clara Schumann was enthusiastic and asked him to send the remaining pieces of his new work.

The words ‘melancholy’ and ‘with pleasure’ aptly describe the atmosphere evoked by the falling suspended arpeggios that open the piece. The middle section (bars 17–46) is in the relative key of D major, while the recapitulation returns to B minor.

Arranged wind quintet.

The Clarinet part is for Clarinet In A (Clarinet in Bb also provided)

Check out my other arrangements of Brahms piano works: Various Intermezzos and a Romanze, toghether with arrangements of some of his orchestral pieces.

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