Biography for
Johannes Brahms

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Date of Birth

7 May 1833, State of Hamburg, German Confederation. [now Hamburg, Germany]

Date of Death

3 April 1897, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now in Austria) (complications from a cold)

Mini Biography

German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in Vienna, Austria in 1897. A perfectionist, he often compared himself unfavorably to composers such as Beethoven and ended up destroying many compositions without their ever being heard. While basically conservative, he showed musical growth throughout his four symphonies and occasionally borrowed wilder folk themes, such as in his Hungarian Dances, and he explored a vast range of human emotion in his Violin Concerto.

Although he never married, much of his later life involved a seemingly unending devotion to Clara Schumann, widow of composer Robert Schumann - both of whom were long-time friends to Brahms.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Walter Snyder

Trivia

Brahms was the childhood piano teacher of famous film composer Max Steiner.

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