Brahms
On May 7th 1833 in Hamburg Germany an individual named Johannes Brahms was born into a strictly Lutheran family. His father had a career as a musician and Brahms quickly began learning how to play piano. At the age of eleven he began composing his first works. Later in life he found the pieces extremely embarrassing because of his mistakes within the works. He destroyed most of the pieces. He had the responsibility of playing piano in dance halls to attempt to help the family’s extreme financial need. In 1850 Brahms met a Hungarian refugee named Edward Remenyi. He was a violinist who introduced Brahms to gypsy and folk music which had a big impact on his style as a composer and musician. Famous composer and music critic Robert Schumann …show more content…
The two went as far as to destroy letters from each other to hide their complex relationship. They appeared to remain close friends after Robert Schumann’s death in 1856. He moved to Detmold Germany in 1857. He began conducting the choral society and gave piano lessons while he was there. He later moved back to Hamburg in 1861 and made his first trip to Vienna, Austria. He had some success while in Vienna and decided to settle their in 1863, where he assumed a position in Singakademie, a fine choral society. By 1872 he was conductor for The Society of Friends of Music. He became director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for three seasons. Brahms completed his most critically astounding choral work in 1868 which was called A German Requiem. During the 1870s Johannes Brahms began strictly composing orchestral works and chamber music. He completed his astounding work Symphony No.1 in C minor in 1876 and it was released for the rest of the world to hear it in the same year. Some of Brahms works might have been inspired by the Greek tragedies of Sophocles. Brahms works began so astounding he became apart of the three B’s (Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms). He remained in Vienna Austria for the rest of his life and continued