Waltzes Op. 39 for Four Hands - Brahms Haydn including the three “Preludes and

including the three “Preludes and Fugues”

Second Place at the Vienna Virtuoso Festival

Johannes Brahms:

His mentors include Mary Evans Villalon

as Beethoven proposed

Waltzes Op. 39 for Four Hands - Brahms Haydn including the three “Preludes andIn spring 1865 Brahms surprised his friends and acquaintances with 16 little waltzes for piano four hands. He informed his friend the well known critic Eduard Hanslick about this in April 1866, saying that his thoughts while writing them had been of Vienna and its pretty girls which is also how they sound light, cheerful, one is tempted to say Schubertian. They still enjoy great popularity today, also for home music making. Brahms also transcribed the