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Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 2 - Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Chamber Music Concert in St. Maron Gemmeyze on 22.01.2026 Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 2 Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Wiaam Haddad, piano Composed in 1893, the Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2 belongs to Brahms’s late piano works, written in the final years of his life. These pieces mark a turn inward: they are intimate in scale, restrained in gesture, and focused on subtle formal balance rather than virtuoso display. Brahms himself referred to several of them as “lullabies of my sorrows,” suggesting not sentimentality, but a reflective musical language. The piece is cast in a clear ternary form A-B-A’. The opening section unfolds as a calm, gently rocking melody in A major, supported by syncopated inner voices that blur the sense of metric stability. The melody itself is simple and song-like, yet harmonically enriched through chromatic inflections and warm, closely voiced harmonies. The middle section moves into a more agitated terrain, shifting to F-sharp minor. Here the texture thickens, the dynamics intensify, and the rhythmic tension increases. This middle passage functions as an emotional shadow to the opening calm, brief but concentrated. The return of the A section is not literal. The closing measures dissolve gently, with the syncopations easing and the harmony settling into a quiet, unresolved calm rather than a triumphant cadence.