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10 Interesting Facts About Johannes Brahms
Published May 7, 2015 General , Top 10 Tips & Facts 1 CommentTags: Beethoven, Brahms, Brahms sheet music, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Liszt, New German School, Robert Schumann, Wagner, War of the Romantics
by Jacy Burroughs
1. Johannes Brahms was born on May 7, 1833. His father was a town musician who played a variety of instruments, mostly horn and double bass.
2. Brahms began playing piano at the age of 7. By the time he was a teenager, he was helping the family financially by performing in inns, brothels, taverns and along the city docks. Brahms is also believed to have begun composing early in his life, but destroyed his early compositions. He did not become famous as a composer until April and May of 1853, when he was on a concert tour as accompanist to the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi.
3. In 1853, Brahms met Robert Schumann. Schumann was so impressed with Brahms’ compositions that he wrote an article in his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, praising the young composer’s genius and heralding him as the one who could overthrow the New German School of Liszt and Wagner.
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