The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians

part in a performance of Schumann's beautiful Andante and Variations,

for two pianos, while Stockhausen sang entrancingly Beethoven's Love Songs, accompanied by Brahms. On one occasion Brahms played his Variations on a Handel Theme, "another magnificent work, splendidly long, the stream of ideas flowing inexhaustibly. And the work was wonderfully played by the composer; it...