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.

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

Johannes Brahms

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

Johannes Brahms had an older sister and a younger brother.

Johann Strauss II ( left ) and Johannes Brahms ( right ) photographed in Vienna

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!

Johannes Brahms: A Biographical Sketch.

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

* Johannes Brahms: A Biography, by Jan Swafford.

* Late Idyll: The Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms, by Reinhold Brinkmann, translated by Peter Palmer.

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

* Johannes Brahms: list of works from http :// www. johannesbrahms. org

* Johannes Brahms – Violin Sonatas MP3 Creative Commons Recording

* Kunst der Fuge: Johannes Brahms – MIDI files Daily limit of 5 files.

* Performances of works by Johannes Brahms in MIDI and MP3 formats at Logos Virtual Library

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Johannes Brahms was persuaded by Clara Schumann to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet.

In 1852 he moved to Hanover, at the same time dissociating himself from the musical ideals of the ' New German School ' ( Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, and their followers, as defined by journalist Franz Brendel ) and instead making common cause with Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

He attended many musical evenings at the Wittgenstein home with such Viennese musicians of the day as Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter, and Richard Strauss.

Composers who have written alternative cadenzas for the first movement include Harold Bauer, Amy Beach, Johannes Brahms, Carl Czerny, Gabriel Fauré, Adolf von Henselt, Mischa Levitzki, Franz Liszt, Freidrich Mockwitz ( Lost ), Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke, Ferdinand Ries ( Lost ), Clara Schumann, Gino Tagliapietra, Anton Rubinstein and Charles-Valentin Alkan.

Famous composers who wrote cadenzas for this popular concerto include Beethoven ( WoO 58 ), Charles-Valentin Alkan, Johannes Brahms ( WoO 16 ), Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Feruccio Busoni and Clara Schumann.

The conservative circle, based in Berlin and Leipzig, centered around Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, and the Leipzig Conservatoire which had been founded by Felix Mendelssohn.

Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms were early key members of a conservative Leipzig-based group of musicians.

He married Clara Maria Rhüden ( 1710 – 1775 ), who was a great-great-grandchild of the Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation Salomon Gesner ( 1559 – 1605 ), thereby ancestor of all later Jauchs, son of deacon Paul Gesner, who was taught by Martin Luther and consecrated by Johannes Bugenhagen.

Johannes Brahms, in a letter to Clara Schumann, said about the ciaccona:

An entry in Clara Schumann's diary about the Handel Variations gives an idea of how close the relationship between her and Brahms was, as well as Brahms's sometimes extraordinary insensitivity: " On Dec 7th I gave another soirée, at which I played Johannes ' Handel Variations.

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

Even the music of the Romantic movement, including Liszt, Chopin, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, was written for pianos substantially different from modern pianos.

His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with Robert Schumann notoriously opining that " as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father "; in contrast, Johannes Brahms held him in high regard and edited some of his music.

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

Walter made many highly acclaimed recordings of other great Germanic composers, such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss Jr., and Anton Bruckner, as well as of Bach, Wagner, Schumann, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and others.

She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Field was very highly regarded by his contemporaries and his playing and compositions influenced many major composers, including Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt.

Other German composers from the period included Albert Lortzing, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Bruckner, Max Bruch, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

* Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich-F-A-E Sonata

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

Many other Romantic composers wrote pieces in the form, well known examples including the concerti by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The group also played music by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, along with Louis Spohr, Joachim Raff and other secondary German composers.

From this point on, Hanslick found his sympathies moving away from the so-called ' music of the Future ' associated with Wagner and Liszt, and more towards music he conceived as directly descending from the traditions of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann — in particular the music of Johannes Brahms ( who dedicated to him his set of waltzes opus 39 for piano duet ).

Piano quartets for that standard lineup were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák and Gabriel Fauré among others.

Many of the popular works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands.

* The ' F-A-E ' Sonata, jointly written by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Albert Dietrich

The Symphony No. 1 in C major, Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, and Symphony in F ( No. 3 ) followed the four-movement outline, model after composers like Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Antonin Dvořák.