After the program, Brahms and Joachim went to a tavern, where they opened several bottles of the best vintage Swiss wine, including the popular “Hold on – that’s mine!” Brahms shouted in an outraged voice. <\/p> “And how do you figure that out?” “<\/p> Why, I played the best part of the program – all my own solos, and your accompaniment besides.” <\/p> “Listen -” Joachim addressed the company. “That fellow is a complete egotist.” He fixed Johannes with an accusing eye.\u00a0 “Didn’t you insist that your name should be printed first on all the programs?”<\/p> “Correct alphabetical order,” grumbled Johannes.\u00a8<\/p> “Alphabetical order? Musical<\/em> sequence is more important than anything else.\u00a0 It should be:\u00a8<\/p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n “Why,” he went on, “I was playing in concerts – a big artist – when you were still in the nursery.” (Nursery! thought Brahms, remembering the Hamburg dance-Halls [where he played as a boy].) “Yes,” Joachim insisted, “this money rightfully belongs to me.”<\/p> “On guard!” shouted Johannes in mock fury, seizing a tall “Gentlemen! Gentlemen!” begged the anguished “Stop!” he cried.\u00a0 “See – here is change – !” <\/p> Madeleine & Schauffler, Robert (1943) Brahms The Master. New York: Henry Holt and Company, p.213-14. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1866 Brahms and the violinist Joachim gave a concert tour through Switzerland.\u00a0 One of their concerts was in Aarau. After the program, Brahms and Joachim went to a tavern, where they opened several bottles of the best vintage Swiss wine, including the popular vin mousseux of Lausanne.\u00a0 Brahms felt decidedly genial. “How did we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[606,982],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians","tag-brahms","tag-joachim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“How did we do this evening, my friend?” he asked the concert manager.
“Very well, very well!” the small, meek-looking manager replied, rubbing his hands together.\u00a0 “I have all the receipts in here,” he whispered, pointing to a small sack which he held close to his side.
“Give it to us!’ exclaimed Joachim, seizing the bag.\u00a0 “Here, Hannes, we’ll divvy up the swag.”
“Gentlemen – but, please, I haven’t yet made up my accounts,” the little man cried anxiously.
“No matter – we’ll divide it anyhow.\u00a0 Here, Hannes – a five-franc piece for you.” He tossed a silver coin to Brahms.<\/p>
By this time a crowd had gathered round to watch the fun.\u00a0 Piece by piece the “swag” was doled out – one to Yussuf, one to Johannes.\u00a0 Finally, nothing was left but a twenty-franc note.\u00a0 “I’ll take that,” said Joachim, non-nonchalantly putting the bill in his pocket. <\/p>![\"Joachim](\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/images\/anecodetes\/dividing%20the%20concert%20takings.jpg\")
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