Composer
Johannes Brahms
1833–1897
6,849 works in the index
- Era
- Romantic
- Nationality
- Hamburg
- Born in
- Hamburg
Brahms wrote densely and revised ruthlessly, destroying what did not satisfy him, so the surviving catalogue is smaller than his contemporaries' and uniformly serious. It covers symphonies, concerti, a large body of chamber music, songs and late piano pieces.
For pianists the late Op. 116–119 pieces are the heart of it — short, inward and technically less punishing than the earlier sonatas, though musically demanding. The Hungarian Dances in their four-hand form are the most-played thing he wrote and are genuinely approachable. Singers have over two hundred songs and the German Requiem.
His piano writing assumes a large hand and comfortable tenths appear regularly. Editions differ little; what varies is fingering, and an edition with good fingering is worth paying for here.
Catalogue
Works page 98 of 143
Four Serious Songs, op. 121 04: Though I speak with the tongues of men
Four Serious Songs, op. 121 03: O Death, O Death, how bitter art thou
Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39, No. 16
Four Serious Songs, op. 121 02: So I returned and did consider
Four Serious Songs, op. 121 01: One thing befalleth the beasts and the sons of men
Waltz in D Minor, Op. 39, No. 9
Waltz in B Minor, Op. 39, No. 11
Waltz in B Major, Op. 39, No. 13
Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39, no. 5 in E major
Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39, No. 7
Waltz in B-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 8
Waltz in E Major, Op. 39, No. 12
Waltz in G Major, Op. 39, No. 10
Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56
Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39, no. 1 in B major
Waltzes, op. 39, no. 2 in E major
Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39, no. 3 in G-sharp minor
Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39, no. 4 in E minor
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