[68] Published by Hanslick in the Neue Freie Presse, July 1, 1897.
[69] The scope of these pages does not permit the author to yield to the temptation of presenting an analysis of the means by which Brahms has produced the romantic, mysterious atmosphere which pervades the 'andante moderato.' They will be found strangely simple and intelligible by those inclined to examine for themselves the harmonic material; in the first place of the introductory bars (which consists of the chromatic major concord on the minor sixth of the key, E major, and a couple of passing notes); and in the second place of the full statement of the opening theme (which includes the chords of the dominant minor ninth and the tonic seventh and minor thirteenth, all chromatic).
[70] Widmann's 'Johannes Brahms in Erinnerungen,' p. 58 and following.
[71] A mountain near Thun.
[72] Die Musik, first May number of 1902.
[73] Neue Freie Presse, June, 1897.
[74] Spengel's 'Johannes Brahms,' p. 8.
[75] Neue Freie Presse, June 29, 1897.
[76] Billroth's Briefe.
[77] Neue Freie Presse, July 1, 1897.