Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . eroic moods andagonies, like Shakspere and is a philosophic poet without parallel inmusic, who uses the classic forms of Bee-thoven and his predecessors for the vehicle ofhis thought; who is Norse in poetical in-stinct, orchestral in method of working outhis material, religious in inspiration, andProtestant in his self-control and to his style, Brahms is to be enjoyed onaccount of his literary quality. He has soabsorbed the entire contents of each musicalepoch that he reproduces the characteristicsof each composer by turn. I
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . eroic moods andagonies, like Shakspere and is a philosophic poet without parallel inmusic, who uses the classic forms of Bee-thoven and his predecessors for the vehicle ofhis thought; who is Norse in poetical in-stinct, orchestral in method of working outhis material, religious in inspiration, andProtestant in his self-control and to his style, Brahms is to be enjoyed onaccount of his literary quality. He has soabsorbed the entire contents of each musicalepoch that he reproduces the characteristicsof each composer by turn. If he writes va-riations on a theme by Handel, he becomesHandel. If he enters Wagners territory, hebecomes Wagner. He has his moments ofBach, Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann, thelatter oftenest of all. Thus Brahms achieves the last supremeendeavor of our modern muse — the longingto make music reveal not only feeling, butthought. And he succeeds not by for-mulas cleverly woven into a language, butby tone-painting through orchestral color. ?. BRAHMSS MUSIC ROOM.
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