ISBN 9790006542284. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Text Language: English/German. Preface: Christopher Hogwood.
During his research, Christopher Hogwood came across an unpublished source which had not been taken into consideration for any previous edition.
While on a concert-tour in 1853 with the violinist Ede Remenyi, the young Brahms visited Arnold Wehner, the Music Director of the Gottingen University. In Wehner'sAlbum Amicorum- which included contributions from Robert and Clara Schumann, Mendelssohn, Jenny Lind, Rossini and Liszt - Brahms had notated a short piano piece.
The source consists of a one-page autograph of this literalAlbumblatt(untitled by Brahms). The composer used it 12 years later - revised and transposed from A minor to A-flat minor - in his Horn Trio.
TheAlbumblattis published as a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. A facsimile of the autograph score is also included.
- Published for the first time in a modern Urtext edition
