Liebeslieder op 52 johannes brahms biography

Liebeslieder Waltzes
The composer ca. 1872
English	Liebeslieder Waltzes
Opus	52
Text	from Polydora by Georg Friedrich Daumer
Language	German
Composed	1868 (1868)
Movements	18
Scoring	four vocal parts and four-hand piano

Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes (Liebeslieder-Walzer) are distributed across two opus numbers: Op. 52 and Op.

65 (Neue Liebeslieder).

Johannes brahms compositions

Johannes Brahms (born May 7, , Hamburg [Germany]—died April 3, , Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) was a German composer and.

Johannes brahms songs

Liebeslieder Walzes, op.

Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes were conposer in the middle of his life, and were completed in , having begun their conception a year earlier.

The waltzes are a collection of love songs in Ländler style for voices and piano four hands. The lyrics for the Liebeslieder come from Georg Friedrich Daumer's Polydora, a collection of folk songs and love poems.

While there is no concrete record indicating the exact inspiration for the Waltzes, there is speculation that Brahms' motivation for the songs was his frustrated love for pianist and composer Clara Schumann.^[1]

Background

External influences

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