[5] Printed verbally in Max Kalbeck's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 4.
[6] Vol. II., [Chap. XXI].
[7] 'Musikalische Skizzen Köpfe,' vol. iii.
[8] Clasing was a pupil of C. F. G. Schwenke, who succeeded C. P. Emanuel Bach as cantor and music-director of St. Catharine's Church, Hamburg. On the death of Emanuel Bach in 1788, a portion of his library came into Schwenke's possession, including the score, in Sebastian Bach's own handwriting, of the great B minor Mass.
[9] La Mara, 'Studien Köpfe.'
[10] 'Brahms in Erinnerung.'
[11] Steiner's 'Johannes Brahms'. Neujahr'sblatt der Allg. Musikgesellschaft in Zürich, 1898.
[12] Cf. Kalbeck, p. 186.
[13] Two Guter Groschen were of about the value of 2-1/2d.
[14] Heuberger, 'Musikalische Skizzen.'