Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 (Brahms)
The Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117, are a set of three solo piano pieces composed by Johannes Brahms in 1892.[1] The intermezzi were described by the critic Eduard Hanslick as "monologues"... pieces of a "thoroughly personal and subjective character" striking a "pensive, graceful, dreamy, resigned, and elegiac note."[citation needed]
The first intermezzo, in E♭ major, is prefaced in the score by two lines from an old Scottish ballad, Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament:
Balow, my babe, lie still and sleep!
It grieves me sore to see thee weep.
The middle section of the second intermezzo, in E♭ minor, seems to Brahms’ biographer Walter Niemann to portray a "man as he stands with the bleak, gusty autumn wind eddying round him."[citation needed]
History
Brahms composed the three Intermezzi of Opus 117 in the summer of 1892 while staying in Bad Ischl.[1] In June of that year he asked his friend, the musicologist Eusebius Mandyczewski, to send him manuscript paper so that Brahms could "properly sketch" the three pieces.[2] In September 1892 Clara Schumann learned of the existence of the pieces from her student Ilona Eibenschütz and wrote to Brahms requesting he send them to her.[3] He obliged her request, sending her the completed pieces on 14 October 1892.[4]
References
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- Walter Gieseking. Schumann Brahms. Columbia Masterworks (ML 4540), 1952.
External links
- Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Detailed Listening Guide using the recording by Martin Jones
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