Frases célebres de Johannes Brahms
“Componer no es difícil, lo complicado es dejar caer bajo el escritorio las notas superfluas.”
Sin fuentes
Variante: «No es difícil componer, pero es increíblemente difícil eliminar notas innecesarias».[Sin fuentes]
“Si hay alguien aquí a quien no he insultado, le pido perdón.”
Sin fuentes
Saliendo de una reunión de amigos.
Sin fuentes
Respuesta que dio alzando su copa en una fiesta en honor a él cuando el anfitrión propuso un brindis por el más grande de los compositores.
Johannes Brahms: Frases en inglés
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
As quoted (prefaced by the qualification, "There is a story that one evening, on leaving, Brahms said...") in One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters: Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=irUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12 (1917), edited by Henry T. Finck, p. XII
Attributed
Variante: If there is any one here tonight whom I have not offended, I apologize!
Discussion of the Chaconne in Bach's Partita for Violin #2. Litzman, Berthold (editor). "Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853–1896". Hyperion Press, 1979, p. 16.
Letter to Clara Schumann (31 May 1856) as quoted in Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896 (1971), edited by Berthold Litzmann
Letter to Clara Schumann (12 February 1856) as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 153
“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
Letter to Clara Schumann (15 October 1868), as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 340
