Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.

[Die Schnur, die Perl' an Perle]

Lieder und Gesänge, op. 57. Schnur, die Perl an Perle

[1871]

[3] p. of ms. music ; 25 x 33 cm.

Holograph, fair copy.

Music by Johannes Brahms; words by Georg Friedrich Daumer.

Op. 57, no. 7.

Caption "Etwas langsam."

2 oblong conjugate leaves, 9 staves per page, rastered in blue ink, p.[4] blank.

Text in black ink, pencil corrections in bars 25 and 26.

Gift of the composer to the conductor Hermann Levi, Munich, 1871, sold by the antiquarian Leo Lipmannssohn, Berlin, ca. 1932, to Henry S. Drinker, Merion, Penn., bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965.

First published in: Lieder und Gesänge von G.F. Daumer, op. 57. Heft 2 (Leipzig ; Winterthur : J. Rieter-Biedermann, 1871 -- Pl. no.: 682a).

Forms part of the Henry S. Drinker collection of muscial autographs, 1846-1943.

Photocopy of typescript description by Henry S. Drinker laid in.

Henry S. Drinker collection of musical autographs, 1846-1943.

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania,