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RE: Interesting that you call Brahms' melodic gift

I couldn't agree more. In fact, I'm always puzzled by claims that Brahms isn't a great melodist. Perhaps it's because, as so often in late Beethoven, his presentation is fragmented -- what Wagner referred to as "little chips of melody, like an infusion of hay and old tea-leves, with nothing to tell you what you are swallowing but the label 'best,' and all for the acquired taste of world-ache." But what a magnificent effect!


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