The Four Pieces for Piano Op. 119, are character pieces composed in 1893, and are the last compositions for solo piano by Brahms. Each of the first three pieces is called an intermezzo, and the last a rhapsody. Brahms used the word ‘Intermezzo’ loosely, meaning anything which he regarded as neither capricious nor passionate. He completed these pieces in 1893 during a summer holiday, the first intermezzo being written in May and the following three pieces in June. (source: wikipedia)