Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

“THIS SONG IS . . . OCCASIONALLY PLAYED . . . IN ‘ACADEMIC FESTIVAL OVERTURE’” 145 c   BRAHMS, JOHANNES. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed, in German, three bars from “Gaudeamus Igitur” in his Academic Festival Overture (Op. 80), notated on a hand drawn stave, with holograph title. 1 page, 4to; remnants of prior matting at all edges, faint scattered foxing. Mürzzuschlag, July 1888 [7,000/10,000] “Scholar Leo Schottlaender will have happily sung along in his day. / Let it also be added that in our day this song is also occasionally played on wind and / stringed instruments in an ‘Academic Festival Overture’ / by / Johannes Brahms.”