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A symphony is no joke.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.... (more Johannes Brahms quotes)
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford |
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Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters by Johannes Brahms, Styra Avins, and Josef Eisinger |
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Johannes Brahms (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia |
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