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Previously unheard Brahms piece to air on Radio 3
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 13 January 2012
A two minute piece of piano music written by Johannes Brahms in 1853, but never before heard, will be played for the first time on Radio 3 later this month.
The piece of music was found by conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood in the library of Princeton University, and came from a book that originally belonged to a director of music at Göttingen University in the nineteenth century.
Tom Service, presenter of ‘Music Matters’, the Radio 3 programme which will premiere the piece, explained “[Hogwood looked through the book and] saw signatures of the famous musicians who had come to dinner with [the Gottingen University man], including Liszt and Schumann – and was astonished to find this complete little work by Brahms, written when he was 20. It was really thrilling to hear it in the studio – it felt like we were discovering something”.
The new piece will air on the Radio 3 show on 21 Jan.
