Brahms, Johannes. (1833–1897). Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann für Pianoforte zu vier Händen. Op. 23.. Lpz. u. Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann. [1863]. First edition. Upright folio. 25 pp. [PN] 270. McCorkle p. 80; Hansen p. 48/49; Cat. Hoboken 4 No. 30.
Very rare first edition of the composition dedicated to Julie Schumann and based on a theme by her father. The ornate title page lithography is by Krätzschmer, whose name is printed lower right. Foxed, small water stain upper left corner throughout, occasional fingerings in pencil.
"These variations were written for piano four-hands, a chamber rather than a public genre. Moreover, Brahms had four specific hands in mind, those of Clara Schumann and her daugher Julie, who might paly it 'in memory of the beloved...master...husband and father.' Brahms wrote that 'the theme really sounds like a wistful, softly spoken word of farewell and the variations do not stray too far from this idea.'... The theme's earliest manifestation was as the principle melody of the slow movement of Rober Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)." (Julian Littlewood, "The Variations of Johannes Brahms," p. 89)
Very rare first edition of the composition dedicated to Julie Schumann and based on a theme by her father. The ornate title page lithography is by Krätzschmer, whose name is printed lower right. Foxed, small water stain upper left corner throughout, occasional fingerings in pencil.
"These variations were written for piano four-hands, a chamber rather than a public genre. Moreover, Brahms had four specific hands in mind, those of Clara Schumann and her daugher Julie, who might paly it 'in memory of the beloved...master...husband and father.' Brahms wrote that 'the theme really sounds like a wistful, softly spoken word of farewell and the variations do not stray too far from this idea.'... The theme's earliest manifestation was as the principle melody of the slow movement of Rober Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)." (Julian Littlewood, "The Variations of Johannes Brahms," p. 89)
Brahms, Johannes. (1833–1897). Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann für Pianoforte zu vier Händen. Op. 23.. Lpz. u. Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann. [1863]. First edition. Upright folio. 25 pp. [PN] 270. McCorkle p. 80; Hansen p. 48/49; Cat. Hoboken 4 No. 30.
Very rare first edition of the composition dedicated to Julie Schumann and based on a theme by her father. The ornate title page lithography is by Krätzschmer, whose name is printed lower right. Foxed, small water stain upper left corner throughout, occasional fingerings in pencil.
"These variations were written for piano four-hands, a chamber rather than a public genre. Moreover, Brahms had four specific hands in mind, those of Clara Schumann and her daugher Julie, who might paly it 'in memory of the beloved...master...husband and father.' Brahms wrote that 'the theme really sounds like a wistful, softly spoken word of farewell and the variations do not stray too far from this idea.'... The theme's earliest manifestation was as the principle melody of the slow movement of Rober Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)." (Julian Littlewood, "The Variations of Johannes Brahms," p. 89)
Very rare first edition of the composition dedicated to Julie Schumann and based on a theme by her father. The ornate title page lithography is by Krätzschmer, whose name is printed lower right. Foxed, small water stain upper left corner throughout, occasional fingerings in pencil.
"These variations were written for piano four-hands, a chamber rather than a public genre. Moreover, Brahms had four specific hands in mind, those of Clara Schumann and her daugher Julie, who might paly it 'in memory of the beloved...master...husband and father.' Brahms wrote that 'the theme really sounds like a wistful, softly spoken word of farewell and the variations do not stray too far from this idea.'... The theme's earliest manifestation was as the principle melody of the slow movement of Rober Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)." (Julian Littlewood, "The Variations of Johannes Brahms," p. 89)