[ANPPOM-Lista] Brahms piano piece to get its premiere 159 years after its creation

[Carlos Palombini]

Brahms piano piece to get its premiere 159 years after its creation

Albumblatt was found in a Göttingen music director's book and will be
presented for the first time on 21 January on Radio 3

A two-minute piano piece by Brahms that had lain undiscovered since it was
written in 1853 is to get its debut on Radio
3<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/radio-3>this month. Entitled
Albumblatt, meaning "sheet from an album", the
composition was discovered in the library at Princeton by the conductor and
musicologist Christopher Hogwood <http://www.hogwood.org/>. It will be
performed by the pianist Andras
Schiff<http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/page/0,,1943867,00.html>on
Music
Matters <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnvx> on 21 January.

Hogwood found the music in a book that belonged to the director of music in
the German university town of Göttingen. "He saw signatures of the famous
musicians who had come to dinner with him, including Liszt and Schumann –
and was astonished to find this complete little work by Brahms, written
when he was 20," said Tom
Service<http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tomservice>,
presenter of Music Matters and a Guardian classical
music<http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/classicalmusicandopera>writer.
"It
was really thrilling to hear it in the studio – it felt like we were
discovering something."<http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2012/jan/13/brahms-world-premiere-andras-schiff-christoopher-hogwood>

Roger Wright, controller of Radio 3, said the work was "an incredible
discovery which gives a fascinating insight into the workings of this great
composer".

The piece is especially significant as the tune reappears, in a different
key, in the second movement of Brahms's horn
trio<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFfqMOJWkHg&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL47FDDA19837B8DE9>,
written 12 years later. Service said that although Brahms was assiduous at
destroying all his unfinished pieces, "because he'd left this at somebody's
house he couldn't".

"It shows that he'd been carrying around that tune for years. That could be
the case with all the other music we thought he wrote later – it may have
had all kinds of prehistories that he destroyed," he added.

Written on a single side of music manuscript, the piece bears Brahms's
markings and dynamics and is, says Service, relatively easy to play. "It's
a little Brahmsian gem that all pianists will surely want to play after
they hear it in its belated premiere performance and broadcast next week,
159 years after it was composed."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/13/brahms-piano-piece-premiere?INTCMP=SRCH
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carlos palombini
www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011
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