Johannes Brahms: Two Rhapsodies Op 79 Piano Urtext: Piano: Instrumental Work

Revised edition of HN 119-In 1879 about ten years before Johannes Brahms composed his late melancholic piano pieces he wrote the two Rhapsodies op. 79 two markedly passionate and comparatively extensive works. In a letter to the convalescent ClaraSchumann Brahms spoke in a typically understated fashion about the two pieces with which you can really run riot and test whether the course of treatment has actually had any effect . We prefer to agree with Brahms friendElisabeth von Herzogenberg: the fact that the g minor is my favourite does not make me insensitive towards the intensely prickly beauty of the one in b minor . Both of these popular works have now been revised on the basis of thenew Brahms Complete Edition.