It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
- Johannes Brahms