Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>I've often wondered why so many people who insist that Brahms is somehow or
>other a continuatin of Beethoven usually gloss over the fact that it was
>Bruckner and not Brahms who took the energy of the Beethoven scherzos to
>knew heights and often blazing splendor.

It should also be pointed out that Brahms' compositional methods are closer
to Mozart than Beethoven...

Stirling S Newberry
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