Four Ballades for piano, No. 1, Op. 10 No. 1
This guide follows Brahms’s Four Ballades for piano, No. 1, Op. 10 No. 1 (1854) in one part.
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Follow all 6 sections as they play
0:13–4:35
, D minor, 4/4. The opening has two groups, 1 and 2, and both are repeated. The is in D major and (fast, but not too fast): pulsing triplets and growing fortissimo chords suggest the son's guilty conscience and the confession. The A' Section, marked , brings the opening back, with its triplets in the bass breaking it up, and the piece ends chillingly.
- A Section-- – : 1
- A Section-- – : 2
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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