BRAHMS AND THE SMALLER MAN.
It often happens that the greatest artist is the least sentimental about hik works. Brahms, for instance, took his work quite lightly in this respect, and when one day he called on Herman Goertz, a well-known composer of the day, and found him busy writing a string quartet, he asked: “So, do you also amuse yourself with these things sometimes?” Goertz. with the affectation of a minor artist, replied in the most solemn manner: “It is the most sacred thing I have!” The big mind of Brahms could not sympathise with this foolishness, but he was too polite and too charitable to quarrel with the other composer or to make fun of him. He accordingly stayed long enough to keep up the appearance of not being disgusted; but after that he never regarded Goertz as a serious composer.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 12
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