Baerenreiter Verlag Albumblatt for Piano - Brahms - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano Albumblatt for Piano - Brahms - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano

Composer: Johannes Brahms
Editor: Christopher Hogwood
Format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Piano

During his research, Christopher Hogwood came across an unpublished source which had not been taken into consideration for any previous edition.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's "Album 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 literal "Albumblatt" (untitled by Brahms). The composer used it 12 years later - revised and transposed from A minor to A-flat minor - in his Horn Trio.
The "Albumblatt" is published as a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. A facsimile of the autograph score is also included.