Waltz in G major Op. 39 No. 10

Johannes Brahms · Level 5 (Advanced) · Romantic · Piano

One of Brahms’s sixteen Waltzes Op. 39 (1865), a tribute to Schubert’s Viennese waltzes. G major, 3/4, 32 bars (about one minute), complete score.

▶ Play this piece with the interactive score

How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• The left hand makes wide leaps: look at the landing note in advance and move early, without rushing the rhythm. For chords, shape the hand in the air before landing, all notes together. Fast writing: work section by section in Wait mode, then in dotted rhythms, and raise the tempo in steps of 5–10%.

More pieces by Johannes Brahms

• Waltz in A-flat major Op. 39 No. 15
• Intermezzo in A major Op. 118 No. 2

Source : Mutopia Project · Public Domain