Johannes Brahms, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johannes Brahms

German composer and pianist

Date of Birth: 07-May-1833

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Apr-1897

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, musician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Johannes Brahms

  • Johannes Brahms (German: [jo'han?s 'b?a?ms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.
  • Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna.
  • His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow. Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus.
  • A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works.
  • He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends).
  • Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire.
  • An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished. Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator.
  • His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters.
  • While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar.
  • The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers.
  • Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs.

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