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STRAUSS, Richard, 1864-1949
Douze variations pour piano en ré majeur
[Variations, piano, TrV 68]
Douze Varations, 16. May 1878
Im Abendroth, 27. April 1948
Paris, 2021. Oblong, 35 x 25 cm. viii, 8 pp. Superb full color bibliophile facsimile of the autograph. There is no better reason to present a work of Richard Strauss than through the publication in facsimile of a rare unpublished work: Twelve variations for Piano in D major, composed at the age of fourteen. This manuscript is one of 8 Strauss autographs kept at the Bibliothèque National de France, acquired in 1979 after the dispersal of the rich collection of André Meyer (1884-1974). It’s a marvel to compare this autograph from 1878 with one of the composer’s last—”Im Abendroth” from 1948, a seventy-year span, and see that little has changed in the master’s handwriting, deliberate and joyful. Introduction in Fr by Mathias Auclair and Rosalba Agresta. Wrappers with exposed stitching. $55
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