Excerpt from Studies in Music: By Various Authors, Reprinted From the Musician and Edited
'If you wish to move a thing you must not stand upon it,' Robert Schumann once said, and he meant to convey that the creative artist must rise above the condition of emotional excitement which contains the germ of the work of art. 'Roland in a fury cannot write verse; a loving heart says least about it.'
It is natural to think of Schumann when speaking of Brahms. I here apply what he said of Art to the Science of history. The growth and development of facts and personal details cannot be set forth in mid-stream, so to speak. Any one who has, for more than thirty years, followed with sympathetic interest every step taken by Brahms as a composer may be fully informed of such details; but he will hardly venture to pronounce any explicit historical opinion on the man. It is not unnecessary to insist on this.
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