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May 17, 2023 · 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 theatre orchestras 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 ...
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Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833, the son of Johann Jakob and Christina Nissen Brahms. His father, an innkeeper and a musician of moderate ability, taught him to play violin and piano. When Brahms was six years old he created his own method of writing music in order to get the melodies he created on paper.
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.
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Dec 7, 1999 · A New York Times Notable Book"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain DealerJudicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert Schumann when he was only twenty, Johannes ...
- Jan Swafford
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
- illustrated, reprint
- Johannes Brahms: A Biography
Johannes Brahms (photo: Tully Potter) Born: May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany. Died: April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria. Eduard Marxsen, who taught the young Brahms, heard of Mendelssohn’s death in 1847 and said: ‘A master of the art is gone; a greater one arises in Brahms,’ a remarkably accurate prediction to make about a 14-year-old student.
Jan 11, 2012 · An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted to erase traces of himself, wanting his ...
Sep 27, 2012 · The Brahms family—Johann Jakob Brahms; his youth and marriage—Birth and childhood of Johannes—The Alster Pavilion—Otto F. W. Cossel—Johannes gives a private subscription concert: 45 : CHAPTER II 1845-1848
