Deryk Barker wrote:

>>Brahms, listening to the B-minor piano sonata.  Which I can identify
>>with.  Though I am sure it is a great work.
>
>To fall asleep during the B minor sonata played by its composer,
>arguably history's greatest pianist?
>
>Brahms sinks in my estimation.

AFAIK this story was debunked recently (though I don't remember the details
of the debunking).  Probably it was made up by someone in the Brahms camp
during the Brahms-Wagner flame wars.

I actually would like to know what Brahms *really* thought of the Liszt
sonata.  Anyone?

Ulvi Yurtsever
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