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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

German composer who idolized Beethoven so completely that he waited until he was forty to publish his first symphony, terrified of the comparison, famously grumbling about "the giant marching behind me." A close friend, and by many accounts a great unspoken love, of Clara Schumann's, he supported her and her children after Robert Schumann's death and stayed devoted to her for the rest of his life. He never married. His music, disciplined, autumnal, built on Classical forms but full of Romantic warmth, culminated in the technically formidable, deeply intimate late piano pieces of his Op. 118 and 119, written when he suspected, correctly, that his own life was nearing its end.

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The easiest Brahms on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.

8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 59 No. 2 - Auf dem See E major · 2 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 59 No. 3 - Regenlied F♯ minor · 4 min 9 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 63 No. 8 - Heimweh II E major · 2 min 9 Lieder and Songs Op. 32 No. 1 - Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht F minor · 3 min 51 Übungen für Klavier No. 1a D major · 2 min 51 Übungen für Klavier No. 1b D major · 2 min Happy bithday lullaby Minuet C major · 1 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 57 No. 8 - Unbewegte laue Luft E major · 3 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 58 No. 8 - Serenade A minor · 2 min 51 Übungen für Klavier No. 8a C major · <1 min 9 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 63 No. 9 - Heimweh III A major · <1 min Berceuse G major · <1 min

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7 Lieder Op. 48 No. 1 - Der Gang zum Liebchen E minor · 1 min 4 Songs Op. 43 No. 3 - Ich schell mein Horn ins Jammertal B♭ major · 1 min Gaudeamus Igitur B♭ major · <1 min Waltz Op. 39 N 10 G major · <1 min 6 Songs Op. 6 No. 4 - Juchhe! E♭ major · 2 min 6 Songs Op. 7 No. 5 - Die Trauernde C major · <1 min 8 Lieder and Romances Op. 14 No. 2 - Vom verwundeten Knaben C major · 1 min 4 Songs Op. 43 No. 4 - Das Lied vom Herrn von Falkenstein C minor · 4 min 8 Lieder and Romances Op. 14 No. 8 - Sehnsucht E minor · <1 min Hungarian Dance No. 5 G minor · 2 min 9 Lieder and Songs Op. 32 No. 9 - Wie bist du meine Königin E♭ major · 4 min Waltz Op. 39 No. 15 A♭ major · 1 min Intermezzo Op. 116 No. 2 A minor · 3 min 7 Lieder Op. 48 No. 3 - Liebesklage des Mädchens B major · 3 min Sonata for Clarinet and Op. 120 No. 2 2nd Movement 2b G minor · 6 min 6 Songs Op. 3 No. 2 - Liebe und Frühling I B major · 1 min 6 Songs Op. 6 No. 1 - Spanisches Lied C major · 2 min 5 Poems Op. 19 No. 1 - Der Kuss B♭ major · 1 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 59 No. 5 - Agnes G minor · 3 min 5 Poems Op. 19 No. 2 - Scheiden und Meiden D minor · <1 min 4 Gesänge Op. 46 No. 1 - Die Kränze D♭ major · 3 min 6 Songs Op. 3 No. 5 - In der Fremde A major · 2 min Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 A major · 5 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 57 No. 4 - Ach wende diesen Blick F minor · 2 min 4 Songs Op. 43 No. 2 - Die Mainacht E♭ major · 3 min 5 Lieder Op. 49 No. 1 - Am Sonntag Morgen E minor · 1 min 6 Songs Op. 3 No. 1 - Liebestreu E♭ minor · 2 min 5 Lieder Op. 47 No. 1 - Botschaft D♭ major · 2 min Nachtwandler Op. 86 Nº 3 F major · 2 min Sapphische Ode F major · 2 min 5 Poems Op. 19 No. 5 - An eine Aeolsharfe A♭ major · 4 min 4 Songs Op. 43 No. 1 - Von ewiger Liebe B minor · 4 min 5 Lieder Op. 49 No. 2 - An ein Veilchen E major · 3 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 59 No. 6 - Eine gute gute Nacht C major · 1 min 5 Lieder Op. 47 No. 4 - O liebliche Wangen D major · 1 min Ballade Op. 10 No. 2 D major · 4 min Ballade Op. 10 No. 1 D minor · 3 min 6 Songs Op. 6 No. 2 - Der Frühling E major · 1 min 5 Lieder Op. 47 No. 2 - Liebesglut F minor · 2 min Intermezzo in Bb B♭ major · 1 min Hungarian Dance No. 1 G minor · 2 min B minor Rhapsody 1 Op. 79 B minor · 8 min Intermezzo (E Major) Op. 116 No. 4 E major · 4 min Ballade Op. 10 No. 3 - Intermezzo B minor · 3 min 8 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 57 No. 3 - Es träumte mir B major · 2 min 5 Poems Op. 19 No. 4 - Der Schmied B♭ major · <1 min 6 Songs Op. 7 No. 1 - Treue Liebe F♯ minor · 2 min 6 Songs Op. 3 No. 6 - Lied A major · 2 min 9 Lieder und Gesänge Op. 63 No. 4 - An die Tauben C major · 2 min 8 Lieder and Romances Op. 14 No. 5 - Trennung F major · <1 min 6 Songs Op. 3 No. 3 - Liebe und Frühling II B major · 1 min Theme and Variations - Sonata op.18b - 2nd movement D minor · 4 min

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