Newly discovered Brahms

"[T]he composition was discovered in the library at Princeton by the conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood. It will be performed by the pianist Andras Schiff on Music Matters on 21 January.
Hogwood found the music in a book that belonged to the director of music in the German university town of Göttingen. "He saw signatures of the famous musicians who had come to dinner with him, including Liszt and Schumann – and was astonished to find this complete little work by Brahms, written when he was 20," said Tom Service, presenter of Music Matters and a Guardian classical music writer. 'It was really thrilling to hear it in the studio – it felt like we were discovering something.'"
Hot damn. Read on at The Guardian.



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