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One of the most beloved composers in the history of music, Johannes Brahms was one of the greatest symphonist to emerge after Beethoven. He was born in Hamburg in 1833 and was the son of a double bass player. He began playing the piano in clubs and bars at an early age. By the time he was twenty, he was ... experimenting with composition. He traveled around Germany as the piano partner to violinist Eduard Remenyi. Brahms was introduced to Schumann, and Schumann was charmed by the talents of the Brahms.
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Johannes Brahms (b.Hamburg, 7 May 1833; d. Vienna 3 April 1897) was a famous German composer. He started his career as a pianist. He was always very self-critical and destroyed any composition he thought was not really good. He thought that people were expecting him to be the “next Beethoven”, and spent many years on his first symphony before he allowed it to be performed. He wrote four symphonies, four concertos, a requiem, piano music, chamber music and songs. Perhaps his best known tune is his Wiegenlied ("cradle song"), often called "Brahms' Lullaby," used in many a child’s musical box.
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Born in 1833 to a double-bassist for the Hamburg opera, Johannes Brahms began his music studies at the age of seven, beginning with piano and adding theory and composition beginning at thirteen. While on a concert tour, he met Franz Liszt and Joseph Joachim, who then introduced him to Robert Schumann, starting a relationship that would last him the rest of his life. Schumann saw promise in Brahms, to the extent of touting him as "the next Beethoven." Schumann died three years later, but Brahms' friendship with Schumann's wife Clara lasted until Clara's death 40 years later in 1896. Schumann's confidence in Brahms became manifest in Brahms' perfectionism—Brahms kept a bust of Beethoven in his studio as a reminder, and is known to have destroyed his drafts of pieces that did not meet his own expectations.
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The piano music of Johannes Brahms seems somewhat oddly situated in a late 19th-century European romantic context, especially when one considers composers like Wagner who was creating the wildly romantic sounds that were to sway the common notion of tonality. Also, Max Reger was shaking the churches with his new tonal language that was to shape the distinctive flavor of German organ music. But Brahms maintained a structured, "conservative" nature to his sound; a style which is considered by some to be anti-romantic or non-pianistic. Some pianists tend to avoid Brahms in favor of other of his contemporaries or successors such as Debussy or Chopin, composers thought to be more romantic, or at least more pianistic.
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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. At the age of seven he began studying piano under Otto Cossel. He played a private concert at the age of ten to obtain funds for his future education. Also at ten years old he began piano lessons with Eduard Marxsen (1806–1887).
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Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, May 7, 1833. The house at 60 Speckstrasse still stands, and doubtless looks much as it did seventy years ago. A locality of dark, narrow streets with houses tall and gabled and holding as many families as possible. Number 60 stands in a dismal court, entered by a close narrow passage. A steep wooden staircase in the center, used to have gates, closed at night. Jakob and Johanna lived in the first floor dwelling to the left.
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