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BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897). Autograph letter signed ('J. Brahms') to [his friend Julius Otto Grimm], n.p. [Vienna], n.d. [early March 1890], inviting him to a choral concert in Cologne on the 13th at which he will hear 'all sorts of estimable choral music, a heap of motets by me, and a piece that must necessarily interest you', for Brahms has brushed off a trio from their youth (the op.8, which he had just revised) and 'if not given it a wig, at least combed and tidied its hair'; the prospect of seeing Grimm again makes him 'as happy as a snow-king', 2½ pages, 8vo , bifolium (minor spotting). Provenance : collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and thence by gift.
BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897). Autograph letter signed ('J. Brahms') to [his friend Julius Otto Grimm], n.p. [Vienna], n.d. [early March 1890], inviting him to a choral concert in Cologne on the 13th at which he will hear 'all sorts of estimable choral music, a heap of motets by me, and a piece that must necessarily interest you', for Brahms has brushed off a trio from their youth (the op.8, which he had just revised) and 'if not given it a wig, at least combed and tidied its hair'; the prospect of seeing Grimm again makes him 'as happy as a snow-king', 2½ pages, 8vo , bifolium (minor spotting). Provenance : collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and thence by gift. 'Du hörst allerlei würdige Chormusik, einen Haufen Motetten von mir u. ein Stuck das Dich nothwendig interessiren müß: / Kennst Du etwa noch ein H dur-Trio aus unserer Jugendzeit u. wärst Du nicht begierig es jetzt zu hören, da ich ihm -- (keine Perrücke aufgesetzt -- !) aber die Haare ein wenig gekämmt u. geordnet ... Ich hoffe recht sehr darauf, und freue mich im voraus wie ein Schneekönig'. Published in the Briefwechsel mit Julius Otto Grimm (Berlin, 1908), p.150.