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Two
composers at an early Bayreuth
Festival
found themselves next door to one
Another in
the same hotel, where great
Johannes
Brahms of Germany bumped in
To great
Chaikovsky in a corridor
While going
down for breakfast, during which
They talked
and got on well: though Brahms was more
Attuned to
Wagner than Pyotr Ilyvich.
When the Festival was done, Chaikovsky
Fled home to
Moskva, declaring how he
'Felt let
out of prison as finally
The
Gottadammerung had died away'.
Brahms's Romanticism thick and heavy-toned,
Chaikovsky's
all pellucid, ravishing my mind.
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