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Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was from the town of Heide in Holstein. [1] [a] Against his family's will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg at age 19. [1] He found work playing double bass for jobs; he also played in a sextet in the Alster-pavilion in Hamburg's Jungfernstieg. [3]
His father, and all his siblings, belonged to the Catholic Church, while his mother Emilie née Bausch was Protestant. [2] ... Johannes Brahms, a Biographical Sketch ...
His first piano teacher was Carl Reinecke, the director of the Gewandhaus orchestra, while his early compositions were influenced by Reinecke, but also by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. Engelbert Röntgen, father of composer, in 1870
In early 1853, the then-unknown 20-year-old Johannes Brahms met Joachim and made a very favorable impression. Brahms received from him a letter of introduction to Robert Schumann, and thus presented himself at the Schumanns' home in Düsseldorf. Brahms played some of his piano solo compositions for the Schumanns, and they were deeply impressed ...
Johannes Brahms: 1833: 1897: German: Johannes Brahms composer, one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period, best known for his four symphonies, Violin Concerto, two piano concertos, and A German Requiem: Amilcare Ponchielli: 1834: 1886: Italian: Amilcare Ponchielli opera composer, known for La Gioconda: Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska ...
In 1853 the Schumanns met the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms, ... She was her father's star pupil, a piano virtuoso emotionally mature beyond her years, ...
In 1888, both Schubert's and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof where they are next to the later graves of Johann Strauss II and Johannes Brahms. [101] Anton Bruckner was present at both exhumations, and he reached into both coffins and held the revered skulls in his hands. [102]
Eugen Jochum (German: [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈjɔxʊm, ˈɔʏɡn̩-]; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others.