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- Hungarian Dances (1869–1880) Brahms was introduced to “gypsy-style” music by the Hungarian violinist Ede Reményi, who he met in 1850. His 21 Hungarian Dances were originally written for piano four hands, where two pianists play from the same keyboard, but are best known now in their orchestral arrangements.
- Academic Festival Overture (1880) The Academic Festival Overture was composed in the summer of 1880 in tribute to the University of Breslau, after Brahms discovered he was to be awarded with an honorary doctorate.
- German Requiem (1865–1868) Brahms’s German Requiem (or, to give it its full title, A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures) is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, and solo soprano and baritone.
- Violin Concerto (1878) Brahms wrote only one concerto for violin, dedicating it to his close friend and almost lifelong collaborator, Joseph Joachim. The composer leaned heavily on the 19th-century violin virtuoso for support and advice during its composition, noting that he had no patience for slurs that indicated bowing rather than phrasing.
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, but he was more a disciple of the Classical tradition. He wrote in many genres, including symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, and choral compositions, many of which reveal the influence of folk music.
What is Johannes Brahms famous for?
Throughout Johannes Brahms’s career there is a variety of expression—from the subtly humorous to the tragic—but his larger works show an increasing mastery of movement and an ever-greater economy and concentration. Some of his best-known compositions included Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4, and Hungarian Dances.
What was Johannes Brahms’s family like?
Johannes Brahms was the son of Jakob Brahms, an impecunious horn and double bass player, who was Johannes’s first teacher. Johannes never married, but he had a close relationship with the pianist Clara Schumann, who was married to his champion, composer Robert Schumann.
How did Johannes Brahms become famous?
The son of Jakob Brahms, an impecunious horn and double bass player, Johannes showed early promise as a pianist. He first studied music with his father and, at age seven, was sent for piano lessons to F.W. Cossel, who three years later passed him to his own teacher, Eduard Marxsen. Between ages 14 and 16 Brahms earned money to help his family by playing in rough inns in the dock area of Hamburg and meanwhile composing and sometimes giving recitals. In 1850 he met Eduard Reményi, a Jewish Hungarian violinist, with whom he gave concerts and from whom he learned something of Roma music—an influence that remained with him always.
The first turning point came in 1853, when he met the violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, who instantly realized the talent of Brahms. Joachim in turn recommended Brahms to the composer Robert Schumann, and an immediate friendship between the two composers resulted. Schumann wrote enthusiastically about Brahms in the periodical Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, praising his compositions. The article created a sensation. From this moment Brahms was a force in the world of music, though there were always factors that made difficulties for him.
The chief of these was the nature of Schumann’s panegyric itself. There was already conflict between the “neo-German” school, dominated by Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, and the more conservative elements, whose main spokesman was Schumann. The latter’s praise of Brahms displeased the former, and Brahms himself, though kindly received by Liszt, did not conceal his lack of sympathy with the self-conscious modernists. He was therefore drawn into controversy, and most of the disturbances in his otherwise uneventful personal life arose from this situation. Gradually Brahms came to be on close terms with the Schumann household, and, when Schumann was first taken mentally ill in 1854, Brahms assisted Clara Schumann in managing her family. He appears to have fallen in love with her; but, though they remained deep friends after Schumann’s death in 1856, their relationship did not, it seems, go further.
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The nearest Brahms ever came to marriage was in his affair with Agathe von Siebold in 1858; from this he recoiled suddenly, and he was never thereafter seriously involved in the prospect. The reasons for this are unclear, but probably his immense reserve and his inability to express emotions in any other way but musically were responsible, and he no doubt was aware that his natural irascibility and resentment of sympathy would have made him an impossible husband. He wrote in a letter, “I couldn’t bear to have in the house a woman who has the right to be kind to me, to comfort me when things go wrong.” All this, together with his intense love of children and animals, goes some way to explain certain aspects of his music, its concentrated inner reserve that hides and sometimes dams powerful currents of feeling.
He worked with leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms has been considered both a traditionalist and an innovator, by his contemporaries and by later writers.
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- Symphony No. 3 In F major, Op. 90 Johannes Brahms - Sinfonie Nr. 3 F-Dur op. 90 | Semyon Bychkov | WDR Sinfonieorchester. First on our list is Symphony No. 3 In F Major, Op.
- Symphony No. 1 In C minor, Op. 68 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 | Charles Dutoit & the Verbier Festival Orchestra (full concert) Next up on the list is Symphony No. 1 In C Minor, Op.
- Die Mainacht (The May Night) Brahms: 4 Lieder, Op. 43 - 2. Die Mainacht. The May Night, also called Die Mainacht, is a composition that will stir up various emotions as it’s a touching piece that’s all about how the moon rises in May.
- Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98 Brahms - Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98 (Century's recording: Carlos Kleiber, Wiener Philharmoniker) Up next is Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op.
- Concerto for violin in D major Op. 77. 1878. Premiered on January 1, 1879 and dedicated to his friend Joseph Joachim with the author conducting the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig.
- German requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra Op. 45. 1868. Also known as “A German requiem”, it is a work about life and death based on the bible. Its premiere in 1868 made the composer thereafter considered one of the best composers in Europe.
- Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68. 1862. For some considered the 10th symphony of Beethoven, his first symphony is one of his most important works. He work on it around 14 years and it was premiered in 1876.
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. 1858. Brahms composed only two concerts for this instrument. Both are masterpieces of this format and are usually performed in symphony halls.
Apr 29, 2024 · 11 Best Brahms Works, The Great Romantic Era Composer. 29th April 2024 by Ged Richardson. Affectionately known as one of the “Three Bs of Music,” there’s Bach and Beethoven, and then there’s Brahms. Born in Hamburg, Germany, composer, pianist, and conductor Johannes Brahms wrote much of his vast body of classical music while living in ...
With Mühlfeld in mind, Brahms wrote his Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (1891); the great Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (1891); and two Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (1894). These works are perfect in structure and beautifully adapted to the potentialities of the wind instrument.
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