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[1] Head of the celebrated Vienna firm of pianoforte-makers.
[2] The Deutsche Musikzeitung of November 29, the very day of the concert, announces vocal duets and choruses by Brahms as part of the programme. The review of the concert in the same paper concludes: 'Frau Passy-Cornet and Herr Fürchtgott assisted the concert-giver, whose programme was altered, by performing songs and ballads.'
[3] Egg-punch was a birthday institution in the family. The Wednesday in question was probably the birthday of Brahms' mother.
[4] Reimann's 'Johannes Brahms.' Published in facsimile opposite p. 28.
[5] Moser's 'Joseph Joachim,' p. 177.
[6] 'Aus meinem Leben.'
[7] Probably a private performance. Hellmesberger's published programmes give the first concert performance of the work by his quartet party as on December 27, 1863.
[8] 'Brahms Erinnerungen,' by Franz Fribberg (Berliner Tagblatt, December 18, 1898).
N.B.—Fribberg was a member of the Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna at the period in question.