* Works by Brahms performed on virtual organs

Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák and Dmitri Shostakovich.

He composed little during this time, and what he did write he couldn't get performed ; the Rosé Quartet ( led by Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Arnold Rosé ) would not even look at his D minor Quartet after it was picked apart in a column, and the premiere of Penthesilea was met by the Vienna Philharmonic, when they tried it out under their celebrated conservative conductor Hans Richter, with nothing but derision for " the man who had dared to criticize " Meister Brahms ," as Richter himself caustically put it.

German Classical is among the most performed in the world ; German composers include some of the most accomplished and popular in history, among them Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Wagner.

Since 1991, the orchestra has performed the works of Beethoven, Bizet, Prokofiev, Lutosławski, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bernstein, Wagner, Brahms, Henze and more.

During this time, he frequently performed with Clara Schumann and with Brahms, both in private and in public.

Despite his close friendship with Brahms, Joachim performed his Violin Concerto in D major only six times in his career.

Although the sonata is rarely performed in its entirety, the third movement, the Scherzo in C minor, composed by Brahms, is still frequently played today.

As a boy of 9 or 10 he was taken to hear both of the Brahms piano concertos performed by d ' Albert — and conducted by Brahms himself.

After a prolonged gestation period, it was first performed on January 22, 1859, in Hanover, Germany, when Brahms was just 25 years old.

Brahms transcribed the quintet into a sonata for two pianos ( in which form Brahms and Carl Tausig performed it ) before taking its final form.

Around the time that Reynolds graduated from high school in 1952, he performed a solo recital in Detroit that consisted of the Johannes Brahms Sonata in F Minor, some Intermezzi, the sixth Franz Liszt Rhapsody, as well as works by Claude Debussy, and Chopin.

He and Hubay performed chamber music on more than one occasion with Johannes Brahms, including the premiere of Brahms's Piano Trio No. 3 in Budapest, on December 20, 1886.

, the composers whose works have been most frequently performed by the IPO were Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

The 10 CDs ( 2 of Bach, 2 of Beethoven, 2 of Schubert, 2 of Chopin, 1 of Brahms, and 1 of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev ; all recorded by the label Opus 111 ) and 1 DVD ( a live recital in Paris ) that are currently ( 2011 ) available for Sokolov constitute a snap-shot of the repertoire that Sokolov has so far performed.

In May 2008, Bronfman performed the Brahms ' Piano Concerto No. 1 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, during a three-week Brahms Festival.

Brahms performed the sonata in Mannheim in July 1865 and then offered it to Breitkopf & Härtel, who turned it down.

The Ladies ' Musical Society was particularly prominent in bringing world-class performers to Seattle ; a pinnacle among their programming was a 1908 concert where Fritz Kreisler and Harold Bauer performed Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Brahms ' Paganini Variations, Schubert's Moments Musicaux, and Schumann's Fantasiestücke.

The piece much played throughout the film is Brahms ' transcription for left hand of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita in D minor, performed by Warner Bros. pianist Victor Aller.

According to Robert Simpson, though not commonly performed and often thought of as the ugly duckling of Bruckner's symphonic body of work, the Sixth Symphony nonetheless makes an immediate impression of rich and individual expressiveness: " Its themes are exceptionally beautiful, its harmony has moments of both boldness and subtlety, its instrumentation is the most imaginative he had yet achieved, and it possesses a mastery of classical form that might even have impressed Brahms.

Laredo made her last recordings in 1999 with the Shanghai Quartet, who called her “ the fifth member of the Shanghai Quartet ” for Arabesque Records ( piano quartets by Brahms ) and at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival with the violinist Philip Setzer for Newport Classic (“ Day Music ” by Ned Rorem ; the CD contains also Norem's “ War Scenes ” and “ End of Summer ” performed by other artists including the composer at the piano ).

This slow, relaxing variation, with its lilting rhythm and 12 / 8 time, is written in the dance style of a Baroque French siciliana from the school of Couperin ( Brahms had edited Couperin's music ).

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

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.

Bartók's large-scale orchestral works were still in the style of Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, but he wrote a number of small piano pieces which showed his growing interest in folk music.

Nationalist composers emerged in Central Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and Britain: the music of Dvorak, Smetana, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Liszt, de Falla, Wagner, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many others drew upon folk melodies.

In his music, Schmidt continued to develop the Viennese classic-romantic traditions he inherited from Schubert, Brahms and his own master, Bruckner.

The question of Brahms and Clara Schumann is perhaps the most mysterious in music history, alongside that of Beethoven's " Immortal Beloved ".

Brahms admired some of Wagner's music and admired Liszt as a great pianist, but the conflict between the two schools, known as the War of the Romantics, soon embroiled all of musical Europe.

In the Brahms camp were his close friends: Clara Schumann, the influential music critic Eduard Hanslick, and the leading Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth.

In 1860, Brahms attempted to organise a public protest against some of the wilder excesses of the Wagnerians ' music.

Brahms strongly preferred writing absolute music that does not refer to an explicit scene or narrative, and he never wrote an opera or a symphonic poem.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Brahms maintained a Classical sense of form and order in his works – in contrast to the opulence of the music of many of his contemporaries.

Thus many admirers ( though not necessarily Brahms himself ) saw him as the champion of traditional forms and " pure music ", as opposed to the " New German " embrace of programme music.

During his stay in Vienna in 1862 – 63, Brahms became particularly interested in the music of Franz Schubert.

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.

Ferruccio Busoni's early music shows much Brahmsian influence, and Brahms took an interest in him, though Busoni later tended to disparage Brahms.

* Brahms by Malcolm MacDonald is a biography and discussion of virtually everything Brahms composed, along with chapters examining his position in Romantic music, his devotion to Early Music, and his influence on later composers.

Trained by the great classical music composers Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as such is often referred to as " the father of film music ".