“…[84] Brahms was dubbed a member of the "abstinence school" and a producer of "stiff wooden figures." [85] These accusations would develop into Nietzsche's criticism of Brahms for his reliance on musical traditions (Bach and Viennese classicism) as derivative imitation, which he considered to be evidence of a "melancholy of incapacity." [86] Some of Brahms's most vociferous critics were Nietzsche's friend, the composer Friedrich Gast, who, like Nietzsche later, regarded Brahms's music as "emotionally cold, lifeless, stiff," and the music critic Hugo Wolfe, who described Brahms's Symphony no.…”