The Music Plays On — Brahms and Tchaikovsky
3 min readMay 9, 2020
As May 7 passes us by every year, it always comes as a little shock that these two were born on the same day, Brahms in 1833, and Tchaikovsky in 1840. Not only because they’re so famous, but because they famously didn’t like each other’s music! Tchaikovsky, particularly, had very harsh things to say about Brahms. “A giftless bastard,” Tchaikovsky wrote in his diary about Brahms, 1886
