In 1853 when Johannes Brahms was 19, he made a concert tour as accompanist to the violinist Eduard Reményi. On the tour he met Franz Liszt (...

Like many composers in the 19th century, Brahms made his reputation by playing his own and other composers pieces on the piano.  From what...

Johannes Brahms was one of the first master composers that was also a musicologist. He especially enjoyed studying and analyzing the wor...

Brahms was a very self-critical composer. He revised and edited his compositions, some of them for years, until they met his high standard...

The 2nd piano concerto by   Johannes Brahms stands in marked contrast to his first piano concerto, written 22 years previously, not leas...

The first symphony of Brahms, by his own admission, took 21 years to complete from initial sketches in 1855 to finishing touches in 1876 whe...

Johannes Brahms was encouraged to travel from his hometown of Hamburg to Vienna by his friends Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim. They thoug...

The complete title of Brahms' Requiem is A German Requiem, To Words of the Holy Scriptures, which gives an indication as to the non-tr...

Although Brahms is thought of as a composer of absolute music, that is music that is written for its own sake without having to be inspire...

When Robert Schumann proclaimed Johannes Brahms as the new Messiah of German music, Brahms was but twenty years old. Schumann was an influen...

Johannes Brahms personal library contained works by many composers, including music written by Baroque and Renaissance masters. He also coll...

There is hardly an artist of any era that exerted as much influence on so many others as Johann von Goethe.  A genuine Renaissance man, Goet...

Johannes Brahms was born and grew up in Hamburg Germany, a port city that had (and still does) some rough edges. As an adult, Brahms' pe...