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When the Hamburg born-and-raised Johannes (“Hannes”) Brahms was around four years old, his father Johann Jakob Brahms decided it was high time the kid learned to play the three instruments that he himself played. Papa Brahms wanted his eldest son to follow him into the family trade and be, bless him, employable. Those three instruments were ...
Nov 10, 2022 · Here you go! 1. Brahms was anything but a normal child. In fact, he was a child prodigy. 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.
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.
Johannes Brahms was born on May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany. His father, Johann Jakob, was employed as both a horn and double bass player and gave Johannes his first lessons in music. Later he took piano lessons from Eduard Marxsen who had studied with Ignaz von Seyfriend (a former pupil of Mozart). He also began to compose at an early age.
Dec 19, 2023 · Brahms was born on May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany, to Johann Jakob Brahms and Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen. His Father Was In The Hamburg Philharmonic February 26, 2010 – Double bass left on stage.
Oct 7, 2015 · Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Brahms, born on 7 May 1833 in a slum district of Hamburg, was the second of three children to Johann Jakob Brahms, a town musician, and Christiane Nissen, a seamstress. His musical talent was evident in early childhood; he grew up studying J. S. Bach with local piano teachers and playing in dockside taverns to augment ...
Feb 2, 2017 · The author’s original essay, edited herein, was published in the May 2014 issue of Allegro to commemorate the 181st birthday of Johannes Brahms. (Josef Eisinger provided all of the German-to-English translations.) A boy sits in a small room within a modest house in Hamburg practicing the cello, the distracting sounds of family life ever present.
