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From the collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis
BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897)
Document signed and dated (‘Johs Brahms Wien Febr. 20’), a part-printed contract agreeing the copyright to his piano arrangement of a gavotte by Gluck, Anh. Ia/2, Vienna, 20 February 1872.
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BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897)
Document signed and dated (‘Johs Brahms Wien Febr. 20’), a part-printed contract agreeing the copyright to his piano arrangement of a gavotte by Gluck, Anh. Ia/2, Vienna, 20 February 1872.
In English. One page, 337 x 210mm, Brahm’s signature written over an Inland Revenue stamp, the remainder of the document filled out in another hand and dated London, 13 February 1872. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 15 May 1996, lot 15.
Brahms signs over the copyright to a work dedicated to Clara Schumann. Brahms arrangement of a gavotte by Gluck from the latter’s Iphigénie en Aulide received its premiere in Hamburg on 11 November 1868 and was first published in 1871; he dedicated the work to Clara Schumann, the long-standing object of his adoration and, later, affection. In 1872, the Novello publishing house, founded in 1811 by Vincent Novello and housed – as printed here – at ‘69, Dean-street, Soho-square’ in London, purchased the copyright for twenty pounds.
Document signed and dated (‘Johs Brahms Wien Febr. 20’), a part-printed contract agreeing the copyright to his piano arrangement of a gavotte by Gluck, Anh. Ia/2, Vienna, 20 February 1872.
In English. One page, 337 x 210mm, Brahm’s signature written over an Inland Revenue stamp, the remainder of the document filled out in another hand and dated London, 13 February 1872. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 15 May 1996, lot 15.
Brahms signs over the copyright to a work dedicated to Clara Schumann. Brahms arrangement of a gavotte by Gluck from the latter’s Iphigénie en Aulide received its premiere in Hamburg on 11 November 1868 and was first published in 1871; he dedicated the work to Clara Schumann, the long-standing object of his adoration and, later, affection. In 1872, the Novello publishing house, founded in 1811 by Vincent Novello and housed – as printed here – at ‘69, Dean-street, Soho-square’ in London, purchased the copyright for twenty pounds.
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