Brahms, Johannes

Preface

Johannes Brahms – Love songs, Nine waltzes from Op. 52 and 65, selected and orchestrated by the composer

(b. Hamburg, May 7, 1833 – d. Vienna, April 3, 1897)

for voice and orchestra
Rede, Mädchen, allzu liebes op. 52 No. 1, p. 1
Speak, maiden, my love
Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut op. 52 No. 2, p. 8
On the rocks the tide roars
Wie des Abends schöne Röte op. 52 No. 4, p. 12
How beautiful the evening’s glow
Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel op. 52 No. 6, p. 15
A little, pretty bird
Die grüne Hopfenranke op. 52 No. 5, p. 28
The green hop vine
Nagen am Herzen op. 65 No. 9, p. 30
Gnawing at the heart
Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen op. 52 No. 11, p. 32
No, it’s impossible to get along
Wenn so lind dein Auge mir op. 52 No. 8, p. 37
If so gently your eye looks at me
Am Donaustrande op. 52 No. 9, p. 41
At the Danube’s shore

Preface
The first publication of the Liebeslieder. Walzer für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen (und Gesang ad libitum) op. 52 dates from 1869.1 In the same year, the first ten Ungarische Tänze für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen WoO and the following year the Rhapsodie für eine Alt-Stimme, Männerchor und Orchester op. 53 were published, all three works being released by Brahms’s publishing house Simrock in Berlin.2 Brahms also experienced a breakthrough as a widely recognized composer at this time with the premiere or first performances of the Deutsches Requiem op. 45.3 The present edition of the Liebeslieder. Neun Walzer aus Op. 52 und 65 for voice and orchestra represents a se- lection of nine songs from the original version for voice and four-hand piano of the first cycle of the Liebeslie- der-Walzer op. 52 and the further cycle under the title Neue Liebeslieder. […]

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