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Brahms ostensibly wrote his "Alto Rhapsody" as a bridal present for Julie, but he the composition process to work through his irrational feelings of betrayal. He chose Goethe's "Winter's Journey in the Harz Mountains" as its text, a poem about bitterness in response to loss.

“I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ”

- Haydn, on being employed at the Esterhazy Palace in rural Hungary

Before the Euro became the standard currency, European countries placed their great composers on banknotes as symbols of national pride. Attached here are:

Chopin: 5000 Polish Zlotych
Debussy: 20 French Francs
Mozart: 5000 Austrian Schillings
Verdi: 1000 Italian Lire