Music Album of Louise Langhans (née Japha), Private Collection, Freiburg, 1851–1904

The music album, which is part of a private collection, has been digitised by CSMC as part of the project ‘Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals’. The manuscript has a violet velvet binding with gold embossings, and gilt edges. It measures 32,8 × 23,5 cm (landscape) and contains III, 42, II folios (plus 2 manuscript single leaves and one printed single leaf as loose additions). It belonged to the pianist, composer and piano teacher Louise Langhans (née Japha, 2 February 1826–13 October 1910), who was a friend of Johannes Brahms. Today, the album contains 16 entries by Johannes Brahms, Ole Bull, Clara von Goßler, Oscar Lindhult and others. (Three obviously cut-out pages might point to originally more entries, which are lost today.)