Johannes Brahms |Notable Biographies

(1833/05/07 - 1897/04/03)

Johannes Brahms
German-born composer

He was born on May 7, de1833, Hamburg (Germany).
After studying violin and cello studies with his father, bassist of the City Theatre, specialized in piano and started writing under the tutelage of the German teacher Eduard Marxsen, who greatly influenced him.
In 1853 he began a concert tour as accompanist of the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi. During this tour she met the violinist, Joseph Joachim, whom presented it to the German composer Robert Schumann. This was so surprised with the compositions of Brahms, still unedited works, which wrote a passionate article in a magazine of the time on the young composer.
In 1857, he was director of the Court Theatre in Delmont, where he stayed until 1859; He travelled for some time by Germany and Switzerland. Restricted, with problems relating to women (he was in love with Clara Schumann). His first great work presented to the public was the Concerto No. 1 for piano and Orchestra in d minor, which was executed by him in Leipzig in the year 1859. In 1863 he moved to Vienna, where he won the post of director of the Singakademie (Academy of singing), that would leave a year later. In 1868, he achieved fame throughout Europe for the premiere of his German Requiem. In 1871 he moved to Vienna, where he was appointed director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (society of the friends of music), although he left this position in 1874 for this way, devote all his time to composition.
Died on April 3, 1897 in Vienna of a liver cancer. His mortal remains rest at the Central cemetery in Vienna.
2012 gave the news of the discovery of a short score for piano by Brahms. More than 160 years after its composition, you could hear in the British radio BBC. Written in 1853, when the German musician was 20 years old,Alumblatt is "a small but perfectly constructed piece". The finding occurred in the library of the University of Princeton, in the USA, where the British musicologist Christopher Hogwood he found it in a book that had belonged to another German orchestra conductor.