* Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters, ISBN 0-19-816234-0 by Brahms himself, edited by Styra Avins, translated by Josef Eisinger ( 1998 ).

* Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters / Selected and annotated by Styra Avins.

* Johannes Brahms, His Work & Personality, by Hans Gal ( Translated by Joseph Stein ).

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.

La Folia was the most monumental set of orchestral variations before Brahms ' Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

Owing to the family's poverty, the adolescent Brahms had to contribute to the familiy's income by playing the piano in dance halls.

4, at sight ), Reményi was offended by Brahms's failure to praise Liszt's Sonata in B minor wholeheartedly ( Brahms supposedly fell asleep during a performance of the recently composed work ), and they parted company shortly afterwards.

Brahms later excused himself, saying that he could not help it, having been exhausted by his travels.

This took the form of a manifesto, written by Brahms and Joachim jointly.

Among the most cherished of these lighter works by Brahms are his sets of popular dances — the Hungarian Dances, the Waltzes, Op.

Brahms also edited works by C. P. E. and W. F. Bach.

The latter's influence may be identified in works by Brahms dating from the period, such as the two piano quartets Op.

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

Antonín Dvořák, who received substantial assistance from Brahms, deeply admired his music and was influenced by it in several works, such as the Symphony No. 7 in D minor and the F minor Piano Trio.

Features of the ' Brahms style ' were absorbed in a more complex synthesis with other contemporary ( chiefly Wagnerian ) trends by Hans Rott, Wilhelm Berger, Max Reger and Franz Schmidt, whereas the British composers Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar and the Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar all testified to learning much from Brahms's example.

Zemlinsky, moreover, was in turn the teacher of Arnold Schoenberg, and Brahms was apparently impressed by two movements of Schoenberg's early Quartet in D major which Zemlinsky showed him.

Brahms was honoured by the German Hall of Fame, the Walhalla memorial.

Brahms ' domicile was hit during World War II, destroying his piano and other possessions that were still kept there for posterity by the Viennese.

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the " Blue Danube " waltz, and then wrote the words " Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!

When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.

One example is the book Talks With Great Composers, released in the 1950s by Arthur Abell, which contains an unconfirmed interview with Brahms and Joseph Joachim, replete with biblical references.

The interview has been declared fraudulent by Brahms biographer Jan Swafford.

Others whom Sechter taught include the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, the conductor Franz Lachner, the teacher Eduard Marxsen ( who taught Johannes Brahms piano and counterpoint ), the composer and teacher Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Gustav Nottebohm, Karl Umlauf, the conductor and composer Kéler Béla and the pianist-composers Sigismond Thalberg, Adolf von Henselt, and Theodor Döhler, to list a few.

His last concert was on 6 March 1987 ( Schubert, Symphony No. 8, and Brahms, Symphony No. 4 ).

# The Cat Who Played Brahms, 1987 ( ISBN 0-515-09050-6 ): A contemplative Qwill withdraws from the big city to visit his Aunt Fanny in Moose County.

* Swafford, Jan, Johannes Brahms: A Biography, ( New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1999 ), ISBN 978-0679745822.

* Swafford, Jan ( 1997 ), Johannes Brahms: A biography, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0-679-42261-7

* Musgrave, Michael ( 1985 ), The Music of Brahms, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-816401-7

* Lawson, Colin ( 1998 ), " Brahms: Clarinet Quintet ", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-58831-6

* Brahms, William Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events Throughout History ISBN 0-9765325-0-6

* William B. Brahms ; Franklin Township Somerset County, New Jersey: A History ; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3

* William B. Brahms ; Images of America: Franklin Township ( NJ ): ISBN 0-7524-0938-7

After his early piano lessons with Otto Cossel, Brahms studied piano with Eduard Marxsen, who had studied in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried ( a pupil of Mozart ) and Carl Maria von Bocklet ( a close friend of Schubert ).

121 songs, Brahms developed cancer ( sources differ on whether this was of the liver or pancreas ).

In the 19th century German composers continued to write motets occasionally, notably Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms ( in German ) and Anton Bruckner ( in Latin ).

The first is a typical classical orchestra ( i. e. Beethoven / Haydn ), the second is typical of an early / mid-romantic ( i. e. Brahms / Dvořák / Tchaikovsky ), late romantic / early 20th century ( i. e. Wagner / Mahler / Stravinsky ), to the common complement of a present day modern orchestras ( i. e. Adams / Barber / Copland / Glass ).

The most famous lullaby is Johannes Brahms ' " Brahms ' Lullaby " (" Wiegenlied ", 1868 ).

Präparierter Text 1 is adapted from the second movement of Brahms ' Symphony No. 1, and is for violin and magnetic tape ; Präparierter Text 2 is adapted from the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( No. 41 ), and is for flute, trumpet, timpani, violin, cello and double bass ; Präparierter Text 3 is adapted from the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and is for cymbal, bass drum and magnetic tape ; and Präparierter Text 4 is adapted from the Ricercar a 6 from Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering and is for chamber orchestra ( a version for full orchestra followed in 1970 ).

These included a critically acclaimed performance of Brahms ' German Requiem ( see Erich Leinsdorf for a complete list ).

Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner dominated the German musical scene, and neither man wrote symphonic poems ; instead, they devoted themselves completely to music drama ( Wagner ) and absolute music ( Brahms ).

The programme consisted of short pieces by Berlioz and Arnold Bax, and symphonies by Mozart ( the Linz ) and Brahms ( the Fourth ).

In 1896, Toscanini conducted his first symphonic concert ( in Turin, with works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner ).

* Brahms, Four Symphonies, Tragic Overture and Haydn Variations, 1952, Philharmonia Orchestra, London ( his only appearances with that orchestra, produced by Walter Legge ).

Brendel's title for this variation is Intermezzo ( to Brahms ).

* European archive Copyright free LP recording of Brahms 3rd symphony by George Szell ( conductor ) and the ( Royal ) Concertgebouw Orchestra at the European Archive ( for non-American viewers only ).

* Johannes Brahms completes his work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Ein deutsches Requiem ( his Opus 45 ).

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

He also wrote cadenzas for a number of other composers ' concerti ( including the Beethoven and Brahms concerti ).

The composers were Albert Dietrich ( first movement ), Robert Schumann ( second and fourth movements ), and Johannes Brahms ( third movement ).

He also wrote a number of cadenzas for other composers ' violin concertos including those by Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Brahms ( see Beethoven Violin Concerto and Brahms Violin Concerto ).