{"id":329,"date":"2018-03-19T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music-scores.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:10:12","slug":"recently-added-sheet-music-9-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/recently-added-sheet-music-9-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Added Sheet Music – 9 March"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Anne has created a number of new arrangements by Brahms. Bach, Handel, Albinoni, Paganini and the well known guitar piece the Spanish Romance.<\/p>\n

I wanted to write a little about one of the pieces and decided upon Brahms Lullaby<\/strong> as I remember playing it to my children when they were babies in attempt to soothe them.\u00a0 I discovered that Brahms actually wrote the song to a lost love on the birth of her second child.<\/p>\n

Sadly Brahms view of love was very much shaped as a young boy.\u00a0 Growing up his parents had a loveless marriage and that combined with his first job at the age of twelve playing in a brothel lead to confusion when it came to love.\u00a0 However, at the age of twenty five as well as being a rising music star he fell in love with Bertha who sang in a choir that he conducted.\u00a0 They spent a lot of time together and she used to sing\u00a0 a Viennese song to him.\u00a0 Brahms emotional struggle resulted in him ending the relationship.<\/p>\n

Ten years later he saw a pregnant Bertha with her husband and child, he felt sadness, longing and loss on what could have been.\u00a0 As a gift to celebrate the birth of her son he wrote his lullaby, between notes you can hear the song Bertha used to sing to him. She named her son Johannes.<\/p>\n

Today the song is still widely used, and will remind people of different scenarios be it a film, place or memory,\u00a0 to me it is the tune my old wind up jewellery box played as the ballerina twirled around (now I am showing my age!).<\/p>\n

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