" At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head " he said.

According to Robert Simpson, though not commonly performed and often thought of as the ugly duckling of Bruckner's symphonic body of work, the Sixth Symphony nonetheless makes an immediate impression of rich and individual expressiveness: " Its themes are exceptionally beautiful, its harmony has moments of both boldness and subtlety, its instrumentation is the most imaginative he had yet achieved, and it possesses a mastery of classical form that might even have impressed Brahms.

The appeal of the aria for Brahms might have been its simplicity: its range is restricted to one octave ; the harmony is plain, with every note taken from the B-flat major scale ; it " made an admirably neutral starting-place ".

The young Brahms gave a few public concerts in Hamburg, but did not become well known as a pianist until he made a concert tour at the age of nineteen.

Walter made many highly acclaimed recordings of other great Germanic composers, such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss Jr., and Anton Bruckner, as well as of Bach, Wagner, Schumann, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and others.

Its first conductor was George Henschel, who was a noted baritone as well as conductor, and a close friend of Johannes Brahms.

In addition to the French repertoire with which, to his occasional irritation, he was generally associated, he programmed Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner, as well as later composers including Granados, Schoenberg, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams.

The Queen was suitably impressed by her performance and would call Albani back to perform other pieces, by composers such as Brahms, Grieg, Handel and Mendelssohn, as well as traditional French and Scottish tunes.

For concerts as well as recordings of string quintets ( Mozart, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner ) and string sextets ( Brahms ) they invited regularly Cecil Aronowitz as second viola and William Pleeth as second cello.

Their debut in the Carnegie Hall was well received in the New York Times, and they received positive reviews of their recordings of Schumann's piano quintet, Schubert's string quintet and Brahms ' string sextets.

From Charles Villiers Stanford, Ireland inherited a thorough knowledge of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and other German classical composers, but as a young man he was also strongly influenced by Debussy and Ravel as well as by the earlier works of Stravinsky and Bartók.

Tureck did not play only Bach, but had a wide-ranging repertoire which included works by composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Frédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such as David Diamond, Luigi Dallapiccola, and William Schuman.

Many other Romantic composers wrote pieces in the form, well known examples including the concerti by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he also recorded.

He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Beethoven and romantic music such as that by Brahms.

He had been recording what would become a legendary version of Brahms ' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, as well as the complete Brahms symphonies.

With the latter ensemble, he was able to record the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms as well as works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Schubert and Schumann.

Around the time that Reynolds graduated from high school in 1952, he performed a solo recital in Detroit that consisted of the Johannes Brahms Sonata in F Minor, some Intermezzi, the sixth Franz Liszt Rhapsody, as well as works by Claude Debussy, and Chopin.

In keeping with this attitude, Dvořák referenced works by Brahms and Beethoven, as well as a Viennese dance.

Dvořák ’ s Symphony No. 6 has many similarities to symphonies by Brahms and Beethoven, as well as references to Czech folk tunes.

When he resumed recitals his repertoire included Poulenc, Brahms and Britten, as well as the original version of Les nuits d ' été with piano.

Busch was a great soloist, as well as a chamber musician, and live recordings exist of him playing the Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorák and Busoni Concertos, as well as the Brahms Double Concerto.

Influences in his compositions include Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, as well as Debussy and Elgar in some works which he composed closer to 1900.

Steinberg seems to have gone directly back to the score, discounting tradition, and has built his performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly what Brahms set down on paper.

Recently, Brahms scholars Styra Avins and Kurt Hoffman have suggested that this legend is false.

Since Brahms himself clearly originated the story, however, some have questioned Hoffman's theory.

Perhaps the greatest tribute that Brahms paid to Strauss was his remark that he would have given anything to have written The Blue Danube waltz.

However, some musicians specialising in historically informed performances, such as the conductor Roger Norrington, argue that it is unlikely that Brahms, Wagner, and their contemporaries would have expected it to be played in this way.

Some composers considering metronome-tempo-marks to have only little value, or to hinder creative musical interpretation: Johannes Brahms said: " I am of the opinion that metronome marks go for nothing.

Many notable composers, including Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi and Johannes Brahms, have criticised the use of the metronome.

After Bach, the most important composer to be influenced by Schütz was Brahms, who is known to have studied his works.

Selected poems from this collection have been set to music by a number of composers, including Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Loewe, Brahms, Webern and Zemlinsky.

Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Bruch, Dvořák, Glass, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

His most recent recording projects have been the 60th birthday release of piano works by Schumann on the Classics for Pleasure label and new releases for Signum records of Schumann, Brahms and Haydn.

Though Liszt may have been an open disciple of the ideas of the Omnitonic and Omnirhythmic, the influence of such thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly in the music of Brahms, where hemiola and mixing of time signatures is a common occurrence.

He was reported to have threatened another passenger with a revolver, claiming that Brahms had filled the train with dynamite.

Brahms originally conceived the work as his first major work for orchestra, what would have been his first symphony.

Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others.

The lyricism of Eichendorff's poetry is much praised, and his poems have been set by many composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Pfitzner, and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Although some have argued that the work falls within the tradition of other C minor " tragedy to triumph " symphonies, such as Beethoven's Fifth, Brahms ' First, Bruckner's Eighth, and Mahler's Second, there is considerable disagreement over the level of optimism present in the final pages.

Composers who have written alternative cadenzas for the first movement include Harold Bauer, Amy Beach, Johannes Brahms, Carl Czerny, Gabriel Fauré, Adolf von Henselt, Mischa Levitzki, Franz Liszt, Freidrich Mockwitz ( Lost ), Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke, Ferdinand Ries ( Lost ), Clara Schumann, Gino Tagliapietra, Anton Rubinstein and Charles-Valentin Alkan.

Brahms told Carl Martin Reinthaler, director of music at the Bremen Cathedral, that he would have gladly called the work " Ein menschliches Requiem " ( A human Requiem ).

, the composers whose works have been most frequently performed by the IPO were Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Scriabin ), two movements ( Beethoven, Haydn ), five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata ) or even more movements.

The two serenades by Brahms are rather like light symphonies, perhaps more closely related to suites, except that they use an ensemble Mozart would have recognized: a small orchestra ( in the case of the Serenade No. 2, an orchestra entirely without violins ).

The Brahms piano intermezzi in particular have an extremely wide emotional range, and are often considered some of the finest character pieces written in the 19th century.

Beethoven as icon can be seen in the efforts to erect a monument to him, led by Franz Liszt, and in the arguments over whether Johannes Brahms or Richard Wagner better represented the tradition of music that Beethoven was thought to have created.