Johannes Brahms foi um compositor alemão, uma das mais importantes figuras do romantismo musical europeu do século XIX.
Hans von Bülow incluiu Brahms entre os "três Bs" dos maiores compositores alemães , e apelidou a primeira sinfonia de Brahms de "décima de Beethoven".
Wikipedia
“Estude Bach, aí você encontrará tudo.”
Study Bach. There you will find everything.
Johannes Brahms citado em "Johann Sebastian Bach: an introduction to his life and works" - Página 19, Russell Hancock Miles - Prentice-Hall, 1962 - 166 páginas
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
As quoted (prefaced by the qualification, "There is a story that one evening, on leaving, Brahms said...") in One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters: Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=irUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12 (1917), edited by Henry T. Finck, p. XII
Attributed
Variante: If there is any one here tonight whom I have not offended, I apologize!
Discussion of the Chaconne in Bach's Partita for Violin #2. Litzman, Berthold (editor). "Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853–1896". Hyperion Press, 1979, p. 16.
Letter to Clara Schumann (31 May 1856) as quoted in Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896 (1971), edited by Berthold Litzmann
Letter to Clara Schumann (12 February 1856) as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 153
“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
Letter to Clara Schumann (15 October 1868), as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 340
