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May 6, 2017 · The young man's name is Johannes Brahms. Robert, Clara, and Brahms spend the entire month of October together that year. They teach Brahms composition and writing techniques that help turn him into a truly brilliant musician. The support and teaching from Clara made Brahms come to very much love and appreciate her.
And we understand that as they rode that 2.5-year-long emotional roller coaster together, and Brahms experienced firsthand Clara’s depth and power and intelligence, we know that Brahms came to the conclusion that he could never marry a woman his own age. It was a decision he stuck to: after Clara, Brahms would have crushes, but he never married.
Johannes Brahms was born on 7 May, 1833 in Hamburg. His father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was a musician from Heide, who came to Hamburg to pursue a career in music. His mother, Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen, was a seamstress. He was born the second of their three children. Johannes had his first musical training from his father.
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- Something that was frequently ignored by early biographers of Brahms was what he did musically during his formative years. Coming from a very poor family, the young Johannes was sent to play piano at the local inns, brothels and taverns to supplement the family income.
- Throughout his life, Brahms was afflicted by his own reticence and modesty; unlike Liszt and Paganini he was not very good at self-promotion. Writing to a close friend about a new work, the Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (Opus 102), he called it his latest ‘piece of folly’.
- Brahms’ music is deeply influenced by folk and Gypsy music. This was a result of having met the Hungarian refugee violinist, Eduard Remenyi in 1850 when Brahms was only 15.
- Robert Schumann, the composer and writer, was deeply impressed with the young Brahms’ music, and wrote about him in his magazine, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (New Journal for Music); he called him a genius and heralded him as the one to overthrow the New German School of Wagner and Liszt – it the beginning of what became known as the ‘War of the Romantics’.
Feb 21, 2017 · One such uncommon connection blossomed between the virtuosic pianist Clara Schumann (September 13, 1819–May 20, 1896) and the composer Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833–April 3, 1897). The two became acquainted in 1853, when Clara’s beloved husband, the famed composer Robert Schumann, was struck by Brahms’s musical genius and took him under ...
Apr 26, 2003 · Bittersweet symphonies. Brahms's affair with Clara Schumann was a sizzling mess that left his life in chaos and filled his music with yearning. Jan Swafford. Fri 25 Apr 2003 21.15 EDT.
Mar 5, 2021 · She didn’t want the same thing to happen to Johannes. The Romantics, especially the Schumanns and Brahms, regarded their art as religion. Brahms and Liszt referred to Clara as a priestess in 1854. Johannes and Clara likely also chose to never marry simply as a monastic devotion to their art. Johannes Brahms never married. He never had children.
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