Johannes Brahms: 105 pieces, PracticeClef's largest single-composer collection
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Of every composer in PracticeClef's public-domain catalog, Johannes Brahms now has the most pieces live: 105, ahead of Schubert's 96 and Robert Schumann's 90. Most of the 105 are the piano parts of Brahms's Lieder — the accompaniment extracted from a voice-and-piano song and presented on its own as practice repertoire, always labeled as a piano part rather than a standalone composition. One piece is a genuine exception, and three complete opus sets make this more than a pile of songs.
Not every piece here is a song
Buried in the 105 is one piece written for solo piano from the start: the Hungarian Dance No. 5, the best-known of the 21 Hungarian Dances Brahms built from Roma folk melodies he heard and transcribed rather than composed outright — he was always candid that these were arrangements. Its character comes from constant tempo swings: a racing Allegro braking into a swaying Vivace, then a hushed Dolce, again and again across the piece.
Hungarian Dance No. 5 — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in G minor, sits at level 7 of 9, and takes about 2 minutes and 45 seconds to play.
A solo-piano arrangement, not a Lieder piano part — learn each tempo section on its own before stringing the transitions together, so each change lands as deliberate rather than rushed.
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Three complete opus sets
Every song Brahms published in Op.32, Op.58, and Op.63 is now live as a piano part — not a greatest-hits sampling of each set. Op.63 closes with two of Brahms's best-known songs: Junge Lieder I, which opens with the words “Meine Liebe ist grün” (text by Felix Schumann), and Heimweh II, which opens “O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück” (text by Klaus Groth). Op.32, the Platen/Daumer cycle, was completed by its final number, So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide.
Junge Lieder I, Op. 63 No. 5 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in F# major, sits at level 7 of 9, and takes about 2 minutes to play.
The piano part of “Meine Liebe ist grün” — voice part not included. The opening arpeggio starts on a D# minor chord before the music settles into its home key of F# major.
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Heimweh II, Op. 63 No. 8 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in E major, sits at level 7 of 9, and takes about 3 minutes to play.
The piano part of “O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück,” the second of Brahms's three Heimweh settings in Op.63 — piano part only, no vocal line.
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So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide, Op. 32 No. 8 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in Ab major, sits at level 5 of 9, and takes about 2 minutes to play.
The piano part that completed Op.32 on the site — all nine songs of the Platen/Daumer cycle are now live.
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A rain-song cluster
Op.59 contributes a well-known thread: Regenlied (Rain Song) is the song whose melody Brahms reused in the finale of his Violin Sonata No. 1, nicknamed the “Regen-Sonate” for the borrowing. Its companion piece Nachklang (Echo) shares the same rain-drop motif and key. Dämmrung senkte sich von oben (Twilight descended from above), which opens Op.59, is one of Brahms's most famous Goethe settings.
Regenlied, Op. 59 No. 3 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in F# minor, sits at level 5 of 9, and takes about 6 minutes to play.
Piano part only. The melody Brahms later reworked into the finale of his Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major — hence that sonata's “Rain Sonata” nickname.
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Nachklang, Op. 59 No. 4 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in F# minor, sits at level 4 of 9, and takes about 2 minutes to play.
Piano part only. Regenlied's direct companion piece, same key, same rain-drop figure — a natural pair to learn side by side.
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Dämmrung senkte sich von oben, Op. 59 No. 1 (piano part) — Johannes Brahms
This piece is in G minor, sits at level 6 of 9, and takes about one minute to play.
Piano part only, one of Brahms's best-known Goethe settings and the opening number of Op.59.
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What "piano part" means here
The great majority of the 105 Brahms pieces on PracticeClef are Lieder — songs for solo voice and piano. What's on the site is the piano accompaniment, extracted and presented on its own; the vocal line is not included. That's rich, self-contained repertoire, but it's a different thing from a solo-piano composition, and every page says so plainly. Across the full 105, difficulty ranges from 3 to 7 on PracticeClef's 1–9 scale — intermediate-to-advanced territory, nothing pitched at absolute beginners.
Explore it
All 105 Brahms pieces, and the rest of the catalog, are free to browse and play in the full library — filter by composer or difficulty. Connect a digital piano for live note feedback. Turn on Wait mode when you want the cursor to advance after you play the written notes. See the docs for setup. No account is needed.
A note on the numbers. The 105-piece count and every key, difficulty, and length figure here is checkable against each piece's metadata in the live catalog. Duration figures are score-derived estimates, not measured performances. "Complete" applies only to the opus sets named above (Op.32, Op.58, Op.63) — not to Brahms's catalog presence as a whole.