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Brahms was a true Romantic containing his passions in classical garb. It was clearly a case of self-limitation.

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Let’s go back to the Fourth Symphony finale. Perharps the most remarkable thing about this movement is that it ends in rage and fury in E minor, just as it began. There is no final repose, no glorious sunburst in the major mode, as we might expect. No; his last symphony – biographers tells us that he knew this would be his last symphony - is that clenched first raised in hot diafance to the heavens. Just listen to the ending, that brief but shattering final coda: pure rage, but classically contained.