Chorus and piano
SKU:
BR.CHB-16003
Waltzes for Voices and
Piano for Two Hands -
Urtext based on the new
Complete Edition (G.
Henle Verlag).
Composed by Johannes
Brahms. Edited by Jakob
Hauschildt. Choir;
stapled. Chor-Bibliothek
(Choral Library). Song;
Romantic; Late-romantic.
Sheet Music. Duration
26'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #CHB 16003.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.CHB-16003).
ISBN
9790004413302. 7.5 x 10.5
inches. German.
The
well-known Liebeslieder
op. 52, originally for
piano four hands and
voices ad libitum, appear
here for the first time
as a modern Urtext
edition in a hitherto
little-known form for
voices and piano for two
hands. Brahms made this
arrangement himself in
November 1874 after the
conductor Hermann Levi,
who had initially been
commissioned, had
rejected it. Brahms had
previously immersed
himself in the pieces
again for the four-hand
version without voice op.
52A, so that he was now
able to create the new
arrangement in a few
days. Here, Brahms
explicitly intended the
voices no longer as ad
libitum, since the vocal
parts are not completely
incorporated in the piano
part any more. In the
spring of 1875, this
version was published by
Simrock, but it could not
prevail against the
popular original version
and was presumably mainly
performed in a domestic
setting. The present
edition would like to
invite musicians to
rediscover, practically
test and perform a still
little-known form of the
Liebeslieder op. 52. The
musical text follows the
new Brahms Complete
Edition, on which the
informative preface is
also based.