Music Sunday
Sun, May 17
|UU Wellesley Hills
Music Sunday returns as the UU Wellesley Hills choir sings Liebeslieder Walzer op. 52
Time & Location
May 17, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
UU Wellesley Hills, 309 Washington St, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
About the event
UU Wellesley Hills presents Music Sunday; May 17 at 10:30. Join the UUWH choir along with section leaders and pianists Pei-yeh Tsai and June Chen as they perform Johannes Brahms’ Leieslieder Walzer op 52.
Liebeslieder Walzer, op. 52 ---- Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms composed his opus 52, his first of two sets of Liebeslieder Waltzes for voices and 4-hands piano, in 1868-1869. Both musically and textually, these love-song waltzes draw on the folk idioms with which Brahms was enamored. At the time of composition, Brahms was producing first editions of a couple collections of Franz Schubert’s German dances, or Ländler – some of which you’ll hear as our prelude and postlude. The Ländler is a triple-meter folk dance widespread throughout Europe at the time; Schubert’s Ländler, in various keys and moods, were a direct influence on Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes. Similarly, the texts Brahms chose to set are all drawn from…