{"product_id":"brahms-handel-variations-op24-notebook","title":"Johannes Brahms — Handel Variations (Op. 24) — Notebook","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA birthday gift for Clara Schumann, in Brahms's own hand. Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn September 1861, Brahms dated a manuscript of new piano variations and gave it a personal title: \u003cem\u003eVariationen für eine liebe Freundin\u003c\/em\u003e — variations for a dear friend. It was a birthday gift for Clara Schumann. He was twenty-eight; she turned forty-two that month. That first autograph, twenty pages of music in ink with pencil corrections, is kept today at the Library of Congress. This notebook reproduces it complete: every page, in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide to the manuscript: the gift and the woman it was for; the premiere she gave in Hamburg on 7 December 1861; Handel's eight-bar Aria, the theme Brahms started from; a few ways into the variations, pair by pair; and the places where this early copy differs from the score that was later printed — including two variations whose order was reversed on the page, with changed numbers and arrows in the margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the twenty pages of the manuscript, reduced to fit the page, each opening a verso and the recto that follows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the pages are yours: 75 pages of staff paper, ten five-line staves to a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The manuscript is oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way the score does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe gift\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA letter from Brahms dated 11 October still speaks of the birthday variations as music Clara had not yet heard. By 3 November she had almost learned them. She told her daughter Marie that she greatly admired the variations and the craft of the fugue, and that they were exceptionally difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the complete manuscript (20 pages) and 75 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohannes Brahms · Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 · first autograph · September 1861 · Library of Congress, Music Division, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation Collection, ML30.8b .B7 op. 24\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67597991641188,"sku":"SA-NB-BRAHMS-OP24-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/brahms-handel-variations-op24-notebook-v12-1.jpg?v=1790818257","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/brahms-handel-variations-op24-notebook","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}