Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I keep using the example of my Brahms epiphany.  I was at one
>time convinced, aside from certain exceptional works (NOT any of the
>symphonies), Brahms was a fraud.  Incidentally, both George Bernard Shaw
>and Benjamin Britten shared that opinion.

And, perhaps most notoriously, Tchaikovsky, who noted in his diary in 1886:
"I have played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms.  What a talentless
bastard!"

Deryk Barker
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