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.

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus.

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

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 ).

He began to compose quite early in life, but later destroyed most copies of his first works ; for instance, Louise Japha, a fellow-pupil of Marxsen, reported a piano sonata, that Brahms had played or improvised at the age of 11, had been destroyed.

Brahms played an abbreviated version of his first Hungarian dance on the piano.

Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

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

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.

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

A child prodigy in composing, Steiner received piano instruction from Johannes Brahms and, at the age of sixteen, enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Music ( now known as the University of Music and Performing Arts ), where he was taught by Gustav Mahler among others.

Beethoven contributed to the repertoire with a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra while later in the century, Brahms wrote a Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra.

The young Schnabel once heard Brahms play in a performance of his first piano quartet ; for all the missed notes, said Schnabel, it " was in the true grand manner.

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

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

They worked together a number of times and recorded Brahms ' second piano concerto and Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with the NBC Symphony for RCA.

Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms ' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth (" Unfinished ") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss ' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

* Johannes Brahms – Sonatas for clarinet ( or viola ) and piano, op.

* Johannes Brahms, Fifteen Liebeslieder for piano duet ; String Quartet No. 3

From the age of 5 Mayer attended the Mannheim conservatoire, where, at the age of 11, he played a piano ballade by Brahms before the composer.

83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment.

Upon its completion, Brahms sent its score to his friend, the surgeon and violinist Theodor Billroth to whom Brahms had dedicated his first two string quartets, describing the work as " some little piano pieces.

These intermezzi show a wide variation in the style and function: in Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream the intermezzo serves as musical connecting material for action in Shakespeare's play ; in chamber music by Mendelssohn and Brahms, the intermezzi are names for interior movements which would otherwise be called scherzi ; and the piano intermezzi by Brahms, some of his last compositions, are sets of independent character pieces not intended to connect anything else together.

His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors, most notably the influential Austrian critic Eduard Hanslick, and other supporters of Johannes Brahms ( and detractors of Wagner ), who pointed to their large size, use of repetition, and Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred.

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 ).

This first concerto also demonstrates Brahms ' particular interest in scoring for the timpani and the horn, both of whose parts are notoriously difficult, with the timpani playing repeated notes for extended periods of time and the horn part being difficult for its many prominent usages with or without the piano.

Merryman categorizes herself with other twentieth-century composers heavily influenced by Johannes Brahms — in particular, serialist composers such as those of the Second Viennese School.

His verbal battles with the Brahms Gang in particular were sometimes referred to as " The War of the Rosens ".

Steinberg seems to have gone directly back to the score, discounting tradition, and has built his performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly what Brahms set down on paper.

Recently, Brahms scholars Styra Avins and Kurt Hoffman have suggested that this legend is false.

Since Brahms himself clearly originated the story, however, some have questioned Hoffman's theory.

Perhaps the greatest tribute that Brahms paid to Strauss was his remark that he would have given anything to have written The Blue Danube waltz.

However, some musicians specialising in historically informed performances, such as the conductor Roger Norrington, argue that it is unlikely that Brahms, Wagner, and their contemporaries would have expected it to be played in this way.

Some composers considering metronome-tempo-marks to have only little value, or to hinder creative musical interpretation: Johannes Brahms said: " I am of the opinion that metronome marks go for nothing.

Many notable composers, including Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi and Johannes Brahms, have criticised the use of the metronome.

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

Selected poems from this collection have been set to music by a number of composers, including Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Loewe, Brahms, Webern and Zemlinsky.

Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Bruch, Dvořák, Glass, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

His most recent recording projects have been the 60th birthday release of piano works by Schumann on the Classics for Pleasure label and new releases for Signum records of Schumann, Brahms and Haydn.

Though Liszt may have been an open disciple of the ideas of the Omnitonic and Omnirhythmic, the influence of such thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly in the music of Brahms, where hemiola and mixing of time signatures is a common occurrence.

He was reported to have threatened another passenger with a revolver, claiming that Brahms had filled the train with dynamite.

Brahms originally conceived the work as his first major work for orchestra, what would have been his first symphony.

Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others.

The lyricism of Eichendorff's poetry is much praised, and his poems have been set by many composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Pfitzner, and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Although some have argued that the work falls within the tradition of other C minor " tragedy to triumph " symphonies, such as Beethoven's Fifth, Brahms ' First, Bruckner's Eighth, and Mahler's Second, there is considerable disagreement over the level of optimism present in the final pages.

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.

Brahms told Carl Martin Reinthaler, director of music at the Bremen Cathedral, that he would have gladly called the work " Ein menschliches Requiem " ( A human Requiem ).

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

Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Scriabin ), two movements ( Beethoven, Haydn ), five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata ) or even more movements.

The two serenades by Brahms are rather like light symphonies, perhaps more closely related to suites, except that they use an ensemble Mozart would have recognized: a small orchestra ( in the case of the Serenade No. 2, an orchestra entirely without violins ).

Beethoven as icon can be seen in the efforts to erect a monument to him, led by Franz Liszt, and in the arguments over whether Johannes Brahms or Richard Wagner better represented the tradition of music that Beethoven was thought to have created.