Simon Corley ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>Furtwaengler said something to the effect that Brahms was the first
>>great composer who had practically no influence on what came after.
>
>It's not easy to agree with this statement. For example, wasn't
>Schoenberg influenced as much by Brahms than by Wagner or Mahler?

Actually I have no difficulty agreeing with it at all.

Sure, there were composers influenced by Brahms - Dvorak is an obvious
example, at least in his 6th Symphony - but these were, I'd argue, minor
issues; how exactly did he influence Schoenberg in your opinion?

Deryk Barker
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