Len Fehskens ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>... He took the traditions he was given to their limits, and in that
>sense he, for me anyway, perfectly embodied the end of an era, rather
>than the beginning of a new one.
Furtwaengler said something to the effect that Brahms was the first
great composer who had practically no influence on what came after.
Deryk Barker
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