When his contemporaries heard the Piano Pieces op. 118 that Johannes Brahms had composed, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the first to be allowed to get to know the new pieces, and she attested that they contained “a wealth of sentiment in the smallest of dimensions.” Philipp Spitta fittingly said that the works were “perfect for slowly absorbing in solitude and tranquillity.” Because the melancholic A-major Intermezzo op. 118 no. 2 numbers among the composer’s best-known miniatures, G. Henle Publishers is now offering it in a separate edition. Due to its moderate level of difficulty, it also gives advanced students a foretaste of the cosmos of Brahms’ late work.
當布拉姆斯的同代人聽到他創作的《鋼琴小品集》作品118號時,都欣喜不已。克拉拉·舒曼是最早獲準聆聽這些新作的人之一,她稱讚這些作品「篇幅雖短,卻蘊含著豐富的情感」。菲利普·斯皮塔恰如其分地評價這些作品「非常適合在獨處和寧靜中慢慢品味」。由於憂鬱的A大調間奏曲作品118號之二是布拉姆斯最著名的微型作品之一,G. Henle出版社現已推出該作品的單獨版本。由於其難度適中,它也能讓進階學生提前領略布拉姆斯晚期作品的精髓。