There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.

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.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

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

Johannes Brahms, whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies.

Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897 ) was a German composer and pianist.

Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene.

Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born.

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.

Joachim had given Brahms a letter of introduction to Robert Schumann, and after a walking tour in the Rhineland, Brahms took the train to Düsseldorf, and was welcomed into the Schumann family on arrival there.

While he was in Düsseldorf, Brahms participated with Schumann and Albert Dietrich in writing a sonata for Joachim ; this is known as the " F – A – E Sonata " ().

After Schumann's attempted suicide and subsequent confinement in a mental sanatorium near Bonn in February 1854, Brahms was the main intercessor between Clara and her husband, and found himself virtually head of the household.

After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies ' choir, and Detmold in the Principality of Lippe, where he was court music-teacher and conductor.

In 1889, Brahms was named an honorary citizen of Hamburg, until 1948 the only one born in Hamburg.

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

Brahms was an extreme perfectionist.

Even after its first few performances, Brahms destroyed the original slow movement and substituted another before the score was published.

) Another factor that contributed to Brahms's perfectionism was that Schumann had announced early on that Brahms was to become the next great composer like Beethoven, a prediction that Brahms was determined to live up to.

Mendelssohn and Brahms also wrote significant a cappella motets.

A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.

A musical motto consisting of three notes, F – A-flat – F, was significant to Brahms.

Put to the service of lieder of Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Wolf in a dramatical and musical way, it made its effect with ease and precision.

Brahms wrote settings for piano and voice of 144 German folk songs, and many of his lieder reflect folk themes or depict scenes of rural life.

His first BBC radio broadcast was made in 1931 and included lieder by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms: he subsequently became a prolific broadcaster, and was still active ‘ on air ’ as late as the 1950s.

* Brahms, Vier ernste Gesänge, lieder, with Jörg Demus, piano on the Deutsche Grammophon label

Along with editing the complete piano works of Johannes Brahms and a number of academic works by Pischna, Plaidy and Kullak, Sauer wrote piano concertos, piano sonatas, concert études, piano pieces and lieder.

In England, Fillunger established herself as a highly regarded singer of lieder, particularly in the repertoire of Schubert and Brahms.

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.

Later that year, the British composer Hubert Parry, who considered Brahms the greatest artist of the time, wrote an orchestral Elegy for Brahms.

Other contemporaries, however, found the first movement especially dark, and Reinhold Brinkmann, in a study of Symphony No. 2 in relation to 19th century ideas of melancholy, has published a revealing letter from Brahms to the composer and conductor Vinzenz Lachner in which Brahms confesses to the melancholic side of his nature and comments on specific features of the movement that reflect this.

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.

The early Romantic composers had a major influence on Brahms, particularly Schumann, who encouraged Brahms as a young composer.

* 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer ( d. 1897 )

As time progressed, and as the Romantic period saw changes in accepted modification with composers such as Berlioz, followed by Johannes Brahms and eventually Gustav Mahler, the 20th century saw that instrumentation could practically be hand-picked by the composer.

* May 7 – Johannes Brahms, German composer ( d. 1897 )

* April 3 – Johannes Brahms, German composer ( b. 1833 )

* Johannes Brahms, composer

Beginning with songs and string quartets written around the turn of the century, Schoenberg's concerns as a composer positioned him uniquely among his peers, in that his procedures exhibited characteristics of both Brahms and Wagner, who for most contemporary listeners, were considered polar opposites, representing mutually exclusive directions in the legacy of German music.

* Brahmshaus, dwelling house of the ancestors of the composer Johannes Brahms, now a museum

It is also the forest in which the composer Johannes Brahms liked to walk during his stay in Detmold.

After Bach, the most important composer to be influenced by Schütz was Brahms, who is known to have studied his works.

On another occasion he was the violist in a private performance of a Brahms quartet given before the composer in Vienna.

* April 3 – Johannes Brahms, composer, 63

At the time, his operas impressed Tchaikovsky enough for the composer to rate Delibes more highly than Brahms — although this may seem faint praise when one considers that the Russian composer considered Brahms " a giftless bastard.