(MUSICIANS) BRAHMS JOHANNES Autograph Letter Signed JBrahms

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(MUSICIANS.) BRAHMS, JOHANNES. Autograph Letter Signed, "JBrahms," to an unnamed recipient ("Dear Friend"), in German, responding to questions concerning the publication of music scores, deflecting a question about what he has written recently, declining an invitation to go to England because he has "too great an aversion to concerts and other hullabaloo," requesting manuscripts of Händel arias, and sending his Austrian address. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet with the terminal page of text written vertically on page two; minor toning at edges, some bleed-through on pages one and two, small strip of paper mounted in left margin of first page. Np, nd

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"Eighteen volumes and it is purportedly not worth the trouble to write a letter? . . .
"Like you, I will now refrain from saying all that I could tell you! But I think we will see each other at Pentecost in Düsseldorf, will we not? (Your 19th volume is also coming up next.) . . . .
"The score for volume 19 was not in England, but Pohl, the suave traitor confessed to me that he was corrupted by Englishmen and secretly in the rehearsal wrote down only the parts. The songs . . . are still being written--a few probably already being engraved.
"As for new things that I have written, just stick with your advisor--he knows decidedly more than I!
". . . Perhaps you will have the Händel arias in your suitcase in Düsseldorf. I myself have about a hundred of them--I fear it will not whet my less-than-keen interest in them, even if I see like others. . . .
"But I look forward to seeing you and will only add my address here: Pörtschach am See, Kärnten.
"Let me know if you locate the Händel arias, the famous song in E-flat major 'A Bride' etc."
German transcription and complete English translation available.