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BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897). Autograph letter signed ('Johannes Brahms') to the Hamburg musician Georg Dietrich Otten, postmarked Düsseldorf, 26 February [1856], 2 pages, large 4to (285 x 237mm) (tear across centre fold, approx 130mm, and to lower margin, approx 10mm, repaired with old tape), integral address leaf, clear impression of Brahms's seal with the initials 'J.B.' in red wax (seal tear). Provenance : sale at Henrici, Berlin, 1929; collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon; The Collector , November 1951, vol. LXIV, no.10.
BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897). Autograph letter signed ('Johannes Brahms') to the Hamburg musician Georg Dietrich Otten, postmarked Düsseldorf, 26 February [1856], 2 pages, large 4to (285 x 237mm) (tear across centre fold, approx 130mm, and to lower margin, approx 10mm, repaired with old tape), integral address leaf, clear impression of Brahms's seal with the initials 'J.B.' in red wax (seal tear). Provenance : sale at Henrici, Berlin, 1929; collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon; The Collector , November 1951, vol. LXIV, no.10. SCHUMANN'S FAUST AND SCHUBERT'S NINTH. The letter originally accompanied the dispatch of a set of part's for Schumann's Faust , and 'on the instructions of Mrs [Clara] Schumann', Brahms provides a list of the parts, so Otten can check if any are missing. The letter concludes with a happy reminiscence of a performance of a Schubert Duo in Hanover, as well as 'rehearsals and performance of the great Ninth!': 'Hier die gewünschten Faust-Stimmen. / Ich habe eine Menge zurückbehalten, die nur die "Scene im Dom" enthalten ... Auf Frau Schumanns Instruction schreibe ich auch ein Verzeichniß der Stimmen ... Nun, viel Glück u. Freude zur Aufführung! / Ich habe noch große Freude in Hannover gehabt, erst das Schubert'sche Duo so heerlich zu hören. Dann gar Proben u. Aufführung der großen IX!'. Published in Fritz Callomon, 'Some Unpublished Brahms Correspondence', Musical Quarterly , 29/1 (January 1943), pp.32ff.