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Article: One: Johannes Brahms's collection of Deutsche Sprichworte (German Proverbs).(Critical essay)
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- Brahms Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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INTRODUCTION
In March 1855, while living in Dusseldorf near Clara Schumann and her children, Johannes Brahms filled a little commonplace book with German proverbs. This small, upright notebook, measuring 16.5 by 19.8 centimeters, was found in the composer's apartment after his death and acquired by the Wiener Brahms-Gesellschaft, which subsequently gave it, along with other Brahms documents, to the Handschriftensammlung of the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek in Vienna (catalog no. Ia 79.561).
Whether Brahms gathered these sayings together simply for his own enjoyment and edification or to be read by others as well--perhaps the Schumann children--we do not ...