Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family,Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna,Austria.
His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs” of music,a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bulow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra,chamber ensembles,piano, organ and voice and chorus.A virtuoso pianist,he premiered many of his own works.He worked with some of the leading performers of his time,including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends).
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