Da una lettera di Johannes Brahms a Clara Schumann; Vienna, 19 marzo 1874
Johannes Brahms frasi celebri
citato in Roberto Iovino, Gli Strauss, Una dinastia a tempo di valzer; Camunia; 1998, p. 136
“[Su Johann Strauss jr] Quell'uomo trasuda musica!”
citato in Roberto Iovino, Gli Strauss, Una dinastia a tempo di valzer; Camunia; 1998, p. 136
“Se c'è qualcuno che non ho insultato, chiedo scusa.”
a Vienna si diceva che il compositore esclamò queste parole uscendo da un ricevimento, tuttavia è una leggenda quasi certamente apocrifa
Johannes Brahms: Frasi in inglese
“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