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Johannes Brahms was born on May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany. His parents were married three years earlier when Brahms’s father, Johann Jakob, was twenty-four years old and his bride was forty-one. Together they raised three children: Elise, Johannes, and Friedrich.
Johannes Brahms ( German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna.
May 17, 2023 · Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg on 7 May 1833. His father was Johann Jakob Brahms who earned a living playing the double bass, first in more humble theatre orchestras and then as a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Mark Cartwright
Dec 7, 1999 · In this book, Jan Swafford sets out to reveal the little-known Brahms, the boy who grew up in mercantile Hamburg and played piano in beer halls among prostitutes and drunken sailors, the fiercely...
- Jan Swafford
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
- illustrated, reprint
- Johannes Brahms: A Biography
Nov 10, 2022 · The son of Johann Jakob Brahms, a horn player in the Hamburg military band who eventually became double bass player in the Hamburg Philharmonic, young Johannes showed early promise. He first studied music with his father, learning violin, cello, and piano. Brahms made his concert debut at the age of 10. 2.
Johannes Brahms was born on May 7th 1833 in Hamburg, Germany. His father Johann Jakob, a double bass player in the Hamburg city orchestra, taught Johannes piano from the age of seven. With additional tutoring by Otto Cassel and Eduard Marxsen, Brahms’ talent on the piano developed quickly.
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Johann Jakob Brahms or Brahmst, as he also spelled it, was born on 1 June 1806 in Heide in Holstein, the second son of the innkeeper and trader Johann Brahms, who had moved to Heide from Brunsbüttel via Meldorf.
