Brahms, Johannes

noting that his letter only reached him on the twenty-first of the month at Ischl, and therefore too late for him to provide a literary contribution for publication on the twenty-eighth, and expressing his regret that he will not be present personally to celebrate the first number [of the publication] ("...Ihr Brief erreichte mich erst heute den 21.^ten in Ischl; für einen "schriftstellerischen Beitrag" der den 28.^ten gedrückt sein soll, zu spät...")

2 pages, on a printed visiting card of the composer, 5.6 x 9cm, [presumably Ischl,] 1880s-1890s



together with a printed notice of Brahms's funeral on 6 April 1897, issued by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, addressed on the verso in manuscript to Baron Nikolaus Dumba, 1 page, oblong 4to (c.23 x 29cm), heavy black borders, postmarked Vienna, 5 April 1897, a few tiny holes

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The recipient of the printed notice for Brahms's funeral service was the industrialist and important patron of the arts Baron Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900), who bequeathed over 200 autograph manuscripts of Schubert to the city of Vienna.