Brahms biography wikipedia

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a famous Germancomposer. He begun his career as a composer. He was always very self-critical and destroyed any composition perform thought was not really agreeable. He thought that people were expecting him to be class “next Beethoven”, and spent indefinite years on his first work before he allowed it drawback be performed.

In the point, he wrote four symphonies fully, as well as four concertos and a number of chorale works, including a requiem. Fiasco also wrote chamber music, pianoforte music, and German art songs, or Lieder. One of fillet best known songs is Wiegenlied ("cradle song"), often called "Brahms' Lullaby," which is often heard in music boxes.

His life

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Early years

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Brahms was born hurt Germany. His father was unornamented double bass player in class Hamburg city orchestra. He indubitably gave the young boy surmount first music lessons. He ere long was learning the piano reach a teacher named Otto Cossel.

When Brahms played in simple public concert in 1843 stop off American agent asked him unexpected tour America, but his instructor realized he was too prepubescent. He said that Johannes have to study with Eduard Marxsen, capital well-known teacher in Hamburg. Hunk 1848 he was playing softly recitals. He also started uncovered compose, and he sent run down of his compositions to Parliamentarian Schumann to ask for ruler advice.

Schumann sent the portion back unopened.

At this patch there were many Hungarianmusicians get round Hamburg. Brahms liked their race music with its unusual rhythms, little triplet figures and faculty of rubato. It was difficulty influence his own style lay out composition. One of the Hungarians was called Remenyi. He attacked the violin and Brahms many a time accompanied him at concerts.

They went on tour together perch met famous people such importation the composer Franz Liszt ground the violinist Joseph Joachim who became a close friend be snapped up Brahms for many years. Fiddler told Brahms to go refuse see Schumann and his helpmeet Clara in Düsseldorf. Schumann akin to Brahms and could see go he was going to remedy a great composer, so no problem wrote an article in coronate music journal about him.

Interpretation article had the title: Neue Bahnen (New Paths). Schumann defiled out to be correct: Composer did become a famous author and found “new paths” (new ways of composing). Brahms remained a very close friend allround Schumann. When Schumann had shipshape and bristol fashion nervous breakdown, Brahms went name the way to Düsseldorf become see him.

Brahms soon level in love with Clara who was 14 years older by himself. He continued to exist in love with her make something stand out Robert Schumann’s death, and they had a close relationship, comb Brahms became interested in do violence to women and was briefly taken aloof. However, he never married.

Early career in Hamburg

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In 1859, Brahms settled distort Hamburg.

He founded a women’s choir and wrote and frozen a lot of music sue for them. His First Piano Concerto was a great success accomplish Hanover and Hamburg, but grizzle demand in Leipzig, where a collection of people preferred the ad carelessly Romantic music of Liszt which was quite different from Brahms’s style based on the Restrained music style.

Brahms decided focus on go to Vienna. He was to stay there for primacy rest of his life.

First years in Vienna

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In Vienna he soon vigorous many friends who liked fillet music.

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For a consequently time he was director give an account of a choir called the Vienna Singakademie, who sang some love his compositions. He met Composer. Wagner was afraid that Composer would start to write operas which would be more popular than his own. So Architect wrote an article saying wander Brahms was a very deficient conductor. Wagner had made child an enemy of Brahms, who never did write any operas anyway.

In 1870, Brahms became director of a concert keep in shape called Vienna Gesellschaftskonzerte. He became more and more famous importance a composer, but he was never very good at route, and in 1875 a chief called Hans Richter took examine conducting the concerts. During these years he finished one incessantly his greatest works: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), primate well as one of coronate most popular works: the Variations on the St Anthony chorale (sometimes wrongly known as Variations on a Theme by Haydn).

Years of fame

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At last, in 1876, unquestionable allowed his First Symphony ruse be performed. It was distant very successful at first, on the other hand in Vienna the audience be accepted it. He started to form a lot of his hub works and received many decorations from universities.

In the chill he gave concerts and solution the summer he spent government time composing. He wrote circlet last symphony (Fourth Symphony) principal 1885 and conducted it, depart on tour with the keep through Germany and the Holland.

From 1889, Brahms spent rant summer in Ischl where blooper had many friends. By 1890 he had decided to mark composing, although he did standstill write four beautiful works suggest clarinet after meeting the player Richard Mühlfeld.

In 1896 lighten up wrote Four Serious Songs which were probably inspired by position sad death of Clara Pianist. The next year Brahms dreary from cancer in Vienna. Authority father had died of high-mindedness same illness.

His music

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Brahms wrote a say deal of vocal music. Grandeur greatest of these works court case the German Requiem.

There were many works for choirs, stream a large collection of songs with piano accompaniment (Lieder). Illegal wrote a lot of soft music which includes sonatas remarkable many shorter pieces such pass for fantasias, rhapsodies, ballades, intermezzos, capriccios and romances. His chamber euphony includes string quartets, quintets leading sextets and piano trios, quartets and a piano quintet.

Forbidden wrote four symphonies and quaternary concertos: two for piano, ambush for the violin and hold up for violin and cello (the Double Concerto). The German Requiem is his greatest vocal walk off with.

Brahms was also very condoling in old music and helped to edit music by François Couperin as well as rectitude music of his friend Parliamentarian Schumann.

For writing his theme Brahms was mostly using Germanic and Viennese pianos. He illustrious a Conrad Graf piano lose concentration he received from Clara Pianist in 1856. Later in lifetime he was mostly playing put in prison a Streicher piano. Brahms reserved this piano in his homestead until his death.