Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 1998/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Brahms Sonatas in autograph
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 08:27:12 -0400

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> Subj: [kl] Brahms Sonatas at auction

> Greetings,
> Recently a friend of mine who studies with Charlie Neidich at Stony Brook told
> me that the original Brahms sonatas were being auctioned in New York
> (Southeby's I think). They were available for limited viewing, before they
> were flown to London. Apparently, the Muhlfeld estate has finally released
> them, and Mr. Neidich got to view them and was checking some inaccuracies
> with the current urtext edition. His fear was that they would fall into a
> private collection and be lost to the rest of us. Wouldn't there be any
> facsimiles of these scores that would be accurate? What did Henle and
> Barenrieter use for their current urtext editions, if not the manuscripts? I
> wonder if they've been sold yet and for how much? I wish the library of
> Congress would pick them up, or the Eastman Library.
> Bye for now,
>
> Mario Estrada,
> Florida West Coast Synphony

Unless something very new has happened, this information is about
6 months old. The autographs of both Brahms sonatas were put up
for sale and sold in London somewhere around last October.

And in any case, two very excellent urtext editions of these
works, both of which had facsimiles of the autographs, came
out at least 10 years ago. The edition name escapes me. This
is a problem of age. All I remember is that the cover was fire
engine red.

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