Wes Crone on Brahms:

>...  I consider myself to be a very "learned" music lover.  I am a
>composer and have been studying the arts of counterpoint and orchestration
>for several years from both ancient and modern texts.  I can find NOTHING
>deficient about Brahms.  If it so happens that they find deficiencies in
>his music as a matter of taste then that is a different story.

You can certainly find deficiencies in his orchestration if you want to
(If you don't consider his orchestration as part of his style).  Brahm's
orchestration was discussed on this list more than a year ago.

Mikael
[log in to unmask]