Originally posted by Petrushka
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Brahms' gloomy symphony.
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The point is, as Lento alluded to in the original post, that Brahms humorously described his new symphony to his publisher, Simrock, as 'being so melancholy you will not be able to hear it'. To Elisabeth von Herzogenberg after the premiere he said that 'the musicians play my new work with crepe round their arms because it sounds so mournful'.
Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth, as Brahms well knew."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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