Julius Otto Grimm

Julius Otto Grimm (6 March 1827 in Pernau, Livonia, now Pärnu, Estonia – 7 December 1903 in Münster) was a German composer, conductor and musician who spent the majority of his professional life in Westphalia.

He is most-often remembered today as one of the best friends of Johannes Brahms, whom he met in Leipzig in 1853.

[3] At his death, "hundreds of letters from Madame Schumann, Brahms and Dr. Joachim" were found in Grimm's possession.

[4] Grimm's compositions include a Violin Sonata in A major, three orchestral suites,[3] and a Symphony in D minor published in 1875.

10 "in the Form of a Canon", is positively mentioned and described in some detail in a review (of a performance by the Boston Symphony under Theodore Thomas, in March 1869) in American music critic John Sullivan Dwight's journal.