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In my research of Johannes Brahms, discovered that he lived, he died (1833-1897). He was a classicist with a large helping of romanticism in his compositions. there is not one opera from his pen (the world of opera mourns that fact.

Vienna was his headquarters (better Vienna than Paris unless he was a painter. That is to say each art catagory has it's capital or center, and Vienna was the center of the musical world.

He loved women but from a distance and remained a lifelong bachelor. Was self-effacing and devoid of ego. For example, he described himself as the greatest Wagnarian of his times, which was a joke on himself since he wrote no operas.

Brahms lived the consumate artist's life in that he had no life outside his music. Where others might seek adventures in the world, he sought adventure in his musical composition, content to roam the mysterious halls of his mind in search (and finding) inspiration. His life will not read as a series of mountain climbs, or spiced with duels, nor did he ever hack his ear off in a fit of depression, he didn't starve in Tahiti either, nor lie on his back for months in a Cistine Chapel writing symphonies.

Brahm's biography is essentially a list of his workds punctuated at the end with death. and even at that final point he was probably looking for a way to compose one more INTERMEZZO like the one below that I have transcribed for guitar.