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Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg. His father, Johann Jakob Brahms, came to Hamburg from Schleswig-Holstein seeking a career as a town musician. He was proficient on several instruments but found employment mostly as a horn player and double bassist. He married Christiane Nissen, a seamstress, who was considerably older than he was.
May 9, 2022 · About Johann Jacob Jacob Brahms. Jakob Brahms, geb. 1.6.1806 in Heide/Holstein, gest. 11.2.1872 in Hamburg, Sohn des Heider Gastwirts und Krämers Johann Brahms und der Christiane Magdalene Asmus aus Wöhrden b. Heide. Nach fünfjähriger Stadtpfeiferlehre in Wesselburen, 1826 Übersiedlung nach Hamburg, dort Tätigkeit als freier Musikant in ...
Born: May 7, 1833 - Hamburg, Germany. Died: April 3, 1897 - Vienna, Austria. Johannes Brahms was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. Life. Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg. His father, Johann Jakob Brahms, came to Hamburg from Schleswig-Holstein seeking a career as a town musician.
Brahms was born on May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany. His humble beginnings certainly didn’t hint at the musical genius he was to become. The son of Jakob Brahms, a double bassist in the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, Johannes was introduced to the world of music at a very young age. He began playing piano when he was just seven years old.
Jan 6, 2015 · Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Photograph 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. Brahms’s family occupied part of the first floor (second floor to Americans), behind the two double windows on the left hand side. The building was destroyed by bombing in 1943. Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training.
As Johann Jakob prospered, the family moved over the years to ever better accommodation in Hamburg. Johannes Brahms was born in 1833; his sister Elisabeth (Elise) had been born in 1831 and a younger brother Fritz Friedrich (Fritz) was born in 1835.
Apr 2, 2014 · Widely considered one of the 19th century's greatest composers and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic era, Johannes Brahms was born May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany. He was the second of ...
