Albumblatt for 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During his research, Christopher Hogwood came across an unpublished source which had not been taken into consideration for any previous edition.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 Reményi, the young Brahms visited Arnold Wehner, the Music Director of the Göttingen 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.