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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.
- Early Life
- Breakthrough
- Character & Appearance
- Detmold to Vienna
- The Symphonies
- Brahms' Noted Works
- Brahm's Musical Style
- Death & Legacy
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 theatreorchestras and then as a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. His mother, Christiane Nissen, earned a living as a seamstress and was 17 years older than his father, for whom she had ...
In 1853, Brahms joined with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi (1830-1898) to tour German lands giving performances in various cities. It was this year that Brahms published his first of many songs, Liebestreu ('Faithful in Love'). In Hanover, the wandering musicians met the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) – Brahms would later de...
Brahms was not an easy character to get along with. The music historian C. Schonberg notes that the composer was: According to one legend, Brahms once exclaimed as he left a room full of people in Vienna: "If I haven't offended someone here, I apologise!" (Hayes). The historian D. Arnold notes that it is difficult "to explain why he possessed so ma...
In 1857, Brahms premiered two serenades in the ducal court of Detmold (capital of the small principality of Lippe), where he had been appointed the musical director of the choir and orchestra. The composer had time to regularly return to his native Hamburg, where he initially concentrated on choral works which were performed by the female choir he ...
In 1876, Brahms completed his First Symphony, a work that had been two decades in the making. The reaction after its premiere in Vienna encouraged Brahms to begin work on his Second Symphony. The First Symphony was even popularly dubbed 'Beethoven's Tenth' (Beethoven composed nine symphonies in his lifetime), but the title, though flattering, is mi...
The most famous works by Johannes Brahms, with composition dates noted in brackets, include: 1. Four symphonies 2. Two piano concertos 3. Around 250 songs 4. Rinaldo(1868) 5. Deutsches Requiem(1868) 6. Alto Rhapsody(1869) 7. Triumphlied(1871) 8. St. Anthony Variations aka Variations on a Theme of Haydn(1873) 9. Violin Concerto (1878) 10. 21 Hungari...
Brahms was a great student of earlier music, he collected sheet music from all periods and was more aware of what had gone before in his field than the majority of his contemporaries. He was particularly influenced by Beethoven whose symphonies created models for all that followed. Brahms was also influenced by the lyricism of Franz Schubert (1797-...
In his final year, Brahms suffered from the effects of liver cancer (just as his father had done), and on 3 April 1897, he died in his home of a quarter of a century, number 4 Karlgasse, Vienna. In his home, Brahms had a bust of Beethoven and a picture of Bach above his bed. The third 'B' was buried in the main cemetery of Vienna. Not only did his ...
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Feb 15, 2023 · 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.
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Apr 5, 2024 · On the hundredth anniversary of Brahms’ death, Jan Swafford’s masterful study of the composer simply entitled, “Johannes Brahms: A Biography,” was published. One of the most infuriating aspects of Swafford’s research must have been Brahms’ ruthless purging of his personal documents.
Jan 11, 2012 · Jan Swafford. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 11, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 752 pages. An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the...
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. Johann Jakob was a musician who was proficient on several instruments ...
Apr 28, 2021 · Influenciado por las obras clásicas de Beethoven, Mozart y Hayden, Brahms formaría un estilo musical conservador e innovador: el clasicismo romántico. Iniciando así, un nuevo período de diversos enfrentamientos entre músicos conservadores y modernos sobre el futuro de la música.
