Music Of The Great Composers --

Johannes Brahms-Part 12 Brahms built his music laboriously. It was his custom to keep his work in manuscript for some time and usually to hear one or two performances of it before allowing it to appear in print. He carried self criticism to the extent of rewriting works which had already been published. To Georg Henschel he said once, One ought never to forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by commencing or half finishing a d..