Klinger's first attempts as an engraver met with scepticism on Brahms part, but as he read the Brahmsphantasie, the composer wrote to Klinger: ‟I can see the music… without my knowing it, your drawings transport me; as I contemplate them, it seems the music continues to resonate in the infinite and thus expresses all I meant, more clearly than music alone could and at the same time with the same amount of mystery and anticipation. Sometimes I envy you the power of being so clear with your pen. Sometimes I feel happy that I am not. But finally I must think that any art is the same and expresses itself through the same language” (Musée d'Orsay)