The German composer, pianist and conductor, whose work is the romance is attributed to advanced, in the second half of the 19th Century to one of Europe’s Symphony Orchestra. His piano trios and piano quartets and the cello and violin sonatas are among the most vital compositions in chamber music. The composer Johannes Brahms are characterized by a lyrical tone that obtained by a contrapuntal character of a austere form. His oeuvre includes nearly all genres of music except opera. Besides harmonic romance wise but also shape his style folk elements …
Johannes Brahms was born the second of three children of a professional musician 7th Born May 1833 in Hamburg.
Brahms spent his childhood in poverty. From the year 1840, he took piano lessons. Three years later he made his first public appearance as a pianist. His debut was a success. Already at the age of 13 he had to contribute to the livelihood and play at night in public. In 1853 he left Hamburg and went on a journey in which he accompanied a Hungarian violinist on the piano. During this time he met the Hungarian-born in Hanover, violin virtuoso and composer Joseph Joachim. Through him met Brahms the composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara know in Düsseldorf.
Schumann was able to inspire his work. From the encounter, a friendship developed to the couple. Schumann, Brahms, supported by announcing it in a magazine in the “new rail” as an extraordinary composer. Then followed the acquaintance with the composer Franz Liszt in Weimar. In 1857 Brahms came to the princely court at Detmold. There he was court music director a year later. That same year, 1858, he met in Göttingen know Agathe von Siebold. He became engaged to her, but he did not contain the marriage vows. He subsequently led a women’s choir in Hamburg.
In 1868 he was the first time in Vienna and gave numerous concerts. In the years 1863 and 1864 he was head of the Academy of Music in Vienna, where he matured and final. In 1875 he finished his “German Requiem Opus 50″. From 1872 to 1875 he took over the post of conductor of the Society of Friends of Music concerts. Brahms was a freelance professional musician who was otherwise tied to any office. In 1876 he introduced the first complete symphony. In the same year on the 4th November it was premiered in Karlsruhe. In 1877 he was working on his second symphony in D major, Opus 77, on 30 December of that year, was premiered in Vienna.
In 1878 he composed the Violin Concerto in D major, op 77th In that year he resigned from his first nine trips to Italy. In 1884 work started on the Fourth Symphony. The following year she was finished and on 25 October, it was premiered in Meiningen. His honors contain membership in the Berlin Academy of Arts and in 1886 the honorary presidency of the Vienna Association of Musicians. He was made an honorary citizen of his native city of Hamburg. The universities of Cambridge and Breslau (1879) awarded him an honorary doctorate. Johannes Brahms became the most vital German Symphony Orchestra.
His oeuvre includes nearly all genres of music except opera. In the Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven was regarded him as a model to which he and his four symphonies in C minor (1854 – 1876) in D-Dur (1877), F major (1883) and E minor (1884/1885) sense the classical Viennese tradition could connect. He wrote some fantastic vocal works such as “German Requiem” (1868), “Rhapsody” for alto (1869), “Song of Destiny” (1871) and “Song of Triumph” (1872). Johannes Brahms made over 200 songs, duets, arrangements of folk songs and other works. The most well loved of his works is the “German Requiem” for solo voices, choir and orchestra. The text comes from the Bible.
Among his best known songs contain the track “Excellent evening, excellent night!”. Brahms was a virtuoso pianist. For this instrument, he wrote numerous compositions contain three piano sonatas, Opus One, two and five, which Schumann, Handel and Paganini Variations and later works as fantasies, interludes and Hungarian dances.
Johannes Brahms died on 3 April 1897 in Vienna.
