However, Brahms was later assiduous in eliminating all his early works even as late as 1880 he wrote to his friend Elise Giesemann to send him his manuscripts of choral music so that they could be destroyed. The earliest of Brahms's works which he acknowledged (his Scherzo Op. Marks', some piano arrangements and fantasies were published by the Hamburg firm of Cranz in 1849. īrahms's compositions at this period are known to have included piano music, chamber music and works for male voice choir.
A second recital in April 1849 included Beethoven's Waldstein sonata and a waltz fantasia of his own composition and garnered favourable newspaper reviews.
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His first full piano recital, in 1848, included a fugue by Bach as well as works by Marxsen and contemporary virtuosi such as Jacob Rosenhain.
In 1847 Brahms made his first public appearance as a solo pianist in Hamburg, playing a fantasy by Sigismund Thalberg. Marxsen conveyed to Brahms the tradition of these composers and ensured that Brahms's own compositions were grounded in that tradition. Marxsen had been a personal acquaintance of Beethoven and Schubert, admired the works of Mozart and Haydn, and was a devotee of the music of J. įrom 1845 to 1848 Brahms studied with Cossel's teacher, the pianist and composer Eduard Marxsen. His parents disapproved of his early efforts as a composer, feeling that he had better career prospects as a performer. By 1845 he had written a piano sonata in G minor. He also played as a solo work an étude of Henri Herz. Cossel complained in 1842 that Brahms "could be such a good player, but he will not stop his never-ending composing." At the age of 10, Brahms made his debut as a performer in a private concert including Beethoven's quintet for piano and winds Op. From 1840 he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training Johannes also learnt to play the violin and the basics of playing the cello. Fritz also became a pianist overshadowed by his brother, he emigrated to Caracas in 1867, and later returned to Hamburg as a teacher. Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 his sister Elisabeth (Elise) had been born in 1831 and a younger brother Fritz Friedrich (Fritz) was born in 1835. As Johann Jakob prospered, the family moved over the years to ever better accommodation in Hamburg. Eventually he became a double-bass player in the Stadttheater Hamburg and the Hamburg Philharmonic Society. In the same year he was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia.
In 1830, he married Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen, a seamstress 17 years older than he was. Against the family's will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg in 1826, where he found work as a jobbing musician and a string and wind player. The family name was also sometimes spelt 'Brahmst' or 'Brams', and derives from 'Bram', the German word for the shrub broom. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943.īrahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was from the town of Heide in Holstein. Life Early years (1833–1850) Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. The detailed construction of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. While some contemporaries found his music to be overly academic, his contribution and craftsmanship were admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. Embedded within those structures are deeply Romantic motifs. His music is rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire.īrahms has been considered both a traditionalist and an innovator, by his contemporaries and by later writers. He worked with leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. 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.īrahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, voice, and chorus.
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Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. Johannes Brahms ( German: – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period.
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