Johannes Brahms
Three Intermezzi
Op. 117
About Johannes Brahms's Three Intermezzi
The three Intermezzi Op. 117 are probably the most well-known and best-loved of Brahms’s late piano pieces.
The composer described these pieces, all three of which are marked Andante, “lullabies to my sorrows”.
The Intermezzi were inspired by a Scottish poem from Herder´s Volkslieder, Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lament, and bear this inscription:
Schlaf sanft mein Kind, schlaf sanft und Schön!/Mich dauert´s sehr, dich weinen sehn.
(Sleep softly my child, sleep softly and well!/It hurts my heart to see you weeping.)
| Preview | Title | Key | Year | Level |
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1. Intermezzo | E-flat Major | 1892 | 8 |
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2. Intermezzo | B-flat Minor | 1892 | 8 |
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3. Intermezzo | C-sharp Minor | 1892 | 8 |
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