Autograph Musical Quotation of an Original Finger Excerise for a young Pianist

An especially unusual original AMQS from the Romantic Norwegian composer, who writes out a finger exercise for a young pianist. Beautifully penned on a decorative album page, inscribed (translated from the German): "Very Slowly! Daily exercise for the dear little Gretchen Klinkerfang (?), a souvenir from Edvard Grieg" dated "Stuttgart, Febr[uary] [18]90." With a tear to the right edge effecting the inscription and slightly touching the signature, repaired with archival tape on the verso. Professor Alexander Rehding (Harvard University) has suggested that "Grieg may have made it up. It crunches up the hand and makes the ring finger do all the work." (8542)

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