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Four Piano Pieces (Klavierstücke), No. 3: Intermezzo, Op. 119 No. 3

18932 min

This guide follows Brahms’s Four Piano Pieces (Klavierstücke), No. 3: Intermezzo, Op. 119 No. 3 (1893) in one part.

Recording: Nelson Freire (piano) (1996)

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: e 0:00–1:36

e in C major and 6/8. The opening is a twelve- , and in the it is heard again in nearly the same shape. Each half sets out in C major and ends in A major. The contrasting has eight- phrases that cut across the twelve- pattern. A re- leads back to the opening tune, and the shifting accents keep it playful to the end.

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