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Article: EIGHT Brahms's Mendelssohn.
- Article from:
- Brahms Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
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He is the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the most brilliant musician, the one who sees most clearly through the contradictions of this period and for the first time reconciles them. And he will not be the last of such artists. After Mozart came Beethoven; this new Mozart will also be followed by a Beethoven - perhaps he is already born.--Robert Schumann, "Trios fur Pianoforte und Begleitung," Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1840
One artistic master has died; a greater one is blossoming in Brahms.--Brahms ' s teacher Eduard Marxsen, recounting his reaction to the news of Mendelssohn's death in a letter of 9 October 1873 to Hermann Levi
When Felix ...
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