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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 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. He earned money in his youth by performing at local ...
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 2, 2014 · Widely considered one of the 19th century's greatest composers and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic era, Johannes Brahms was born May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany. He was the second of ...
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.
Late Idyll: The Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms, by Reinhold Brinkmann, translated by Peter Palmer. An analysis of Symphony No. 2 and meditation of its position in Brahms's career and in relation to 19th century ideas of melancholy. (1995, Harvard, ISBN 0-674-51175-1) The Music of Brahms, by Michael Musgrave. Oxford, 1985 ISBN 0-19-816401-7
Johannes Brahms. Johannes Brahms ( German:[joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth ...
