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At the age of 10, Brahms made his debut as a performer in a private concert including Beethoven's quintet for piano and winds Op. 16 and a piano quartet by Mozart. He also played as a solo work an étude of Henri Herz .
How old was Brahms when he started his first job as a piano player, and where did he play? 10 years old, playing in dance halls of the slum district he lived in What was Brahms' second job when he was 20?
May 17, 2023 · Brahms took to piano playing early, learning from age seven and studying composition from age 12. At age 15, Brahms gave his first public piano recital. One of his early teachers was Otto Cossel, and then he was passed on to Edward Marxsen (1806-1887).
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Brahms learned the piano at the age of eight; he improvised a piano sonata at 11, studied theory and composition at 13 and by 14 had made his public concert debut conducting a male-voice choir. In 1850 Brahms partnered the refugee Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, who introduced him to gypsy music and style.
Mar 1, 2019 · Johannes Brahms. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Opus 15. Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna on April 3, 1897. His First Piano Concerto took shape over the years 1854‑1858. Brahms played the solo part in the first performance, which took place in Hanover on January 22, 1859, with Joseph Joachim ...
The concerto was first performed on January 22, 1859, in Hanover, Germany, when Brahms was just 25 years old. The audience received it coldly. [18] The second performance, five days later, was in Leipzig . [19]
Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the time of writing his Piano Concerto No.1 in 1858, he was a very different composer. Brahms’s comfort zone was music for solo piano.
