![]() When his tailor was bold enough to make them the proper length, almost in defiance of the composer's orders, Brahms attacked the pants with his desk shears and just cut them to ankle-length - a wonderfully simple solution to this problem, but sometimes he cut and slashed without overmuch regard for the laws of symmetry. Brahms liked to wear his trousers unfashionably short. The account first appeared in Robert Haven Schauffler's The Unknown Brahms (originally published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1934). A "holograph" manuscript differs in that such scores are entirely in the composer's notehand.Ī near-incident at that Leipzig premiére of Brahms' Violin Concerto warrants retelling here. Joachim's own musical recommendations for solo instrumental changes are written in red ink, and are found in numerous passages in Brahms' manuscript.Ī composer's own manuscript - the autograph score - can eventually bear handwritten notations of others involved in its preparation for printing: copyist, engraver, and instrumental collaborator can all be represented in such a handwritten score. ![]() It was Joachim who gave the first performance (in Leipzig, with Brahms conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) soon after its completion in 1879. The different musical handwritings found in the autograph manuscript clearly record the creative collaboration between the composer and his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the concerto was dedicated. The Introduction was by the late violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin, whose own teacher, Georges Enesco, had played under the baton of Brahms himself. No printed score can offer such insights." - This is from the Introduction to the Harvard University Press edition of the facsimile of the handwritten score of Brahms' Violin Concerto, the original manuscript of which is at The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. "I have always felt a peculiar frisson upon seeing for the first time the actual handwriting of a master composer, alive with its irregularities, its visible impulses, its detectable moments of ease and worry, of joy and despair. Manuscripts, Pens and Composers by Jeffrey Dane
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