It's a shame the composers can't meet in person this evening. It would certainly be entertaining to hear what the antipodes Brahms and Wagner would have to say to each other. While the musical theater reformer, who landed his first international hit with "Tannhäuser" in 1845, and the symphonists world-famous not only for his "Hungarian Dances" treated each other with at most mild malice, there had been a proverbial blowout between Brahms and Hugo Wolf. Brahms' attacks on his older colleague, which Wolf regularly published thereafter, were often amused to recount to his friends. But regardless of what one thought of the other, what one heard were nothing but masterpieces.

Pretty best enemies

Theater Duisburg

Johannes Wedeking

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Pretty best enemies · Duisburger Philharmoniker

Future and recently performed repertoire

Bass in Tragic Overture by Brahms

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Bass in Hungarian Dances by Brahms

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Bass in Tannhäuser Overture by Wagner

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Bass in Mörike-Lieder by Wolf

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