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	Johannes Brahms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reményi was, however, offended by Brahms' failure to praise Liszt's Sonata in B minor wholeheartedly on a visit to the Court of Weimar where Liszt was the court musician where Brahms, instead, fell asleep during a performance of the recently-composed work.
		Brahms is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.
		Brahms was also a prolific composer in the theme and variation form, having notably composed the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Paganini Variations, and Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, along with other lesser known sets of variations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brahms (1926 words)

	MSN Encarta - Johannes Brahms
		Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), German composer, one of the major composers of the 19th century, whose works combine the best of the classical and romantic schools.
		Many biographers contend that Brahms was deeply in love with Clara, but he did not propose to her after Schumann's death in 1856, and he never married.
		Although Brahms revived a tradition to which no important composer since Ludwig van Beethoven had adhered, he was not wholly isolated from his own milieu, and the fiery emotional range of the romantic spirit permeates his music.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559088/Brahms_Johannes.html (651 words)

	Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Johannes Brahms was the second child and eldest son of Johann Jakob and Johanna Henrika Christianne (Nissen).
		Liszt was at the height of his symphonic compositional period, and Brahms comment that "it all came to horrify me." He considered himself a musician of the future, but he viewed the future of composition differently.
		Brahms himself, however, was a supporter of Wagner's music, and considered the writing a cantata, he never found a suitable libretto.
	www.music.eku.edu /faculty/nelson/mus755/brahms.html (724 words)

	Furtwängler on Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brahms is the first great musician, in whose case historical meaning and meaning as an artistic personality no longer coincide: that this was so, was not his fault, but rather that of his epoch.
		And this was not because Brahms were not deeply a man of his times, but rather because the material/musical possibilities of his time went other ways, that did not suffice the quality of his aspirations.
		So Brahms underwent, as the first, the crisis of the times, in that he did not stick fast to them as their object, but rather pitted himself against them.
	members.aol.com /abelard2/furt.htm (967 words)

	BRAHMS by David Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And, in one sense, Brahms is to be congratulated on this.
		Brahms, Clara and Joachim were said to be opposed to the new culture in Germany and were therefore its enemies.
		Brahms had always thought this Joachim's behaviour was the most unreasonable of the two and in a letter to Amalie he said so and listed some of Joachim's faults.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/July02/Brahms_profile.htm (4571 words)

	Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897)
		Born in Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player and his older seamstress wife, Brahms attracted the attention of Schumann, to whom he was introduced by the violinist Joachim, and after Schumann's death he maintained a long friendship with his widow, the pianist Clara Schumann, whose advice he always valued.
		Brahms eventually settled in Vienna, where to some he seemed the awaited successor to Beethoven.
		Brahms showed a particular talent for the composition of variations, and this is aptly demonstrated in the famous Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op.
	www.naxos.com /composer/brahms.htm (763 words)

	Brahms
		Brahms was born on May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany.
		In 1853, when Brahms was about 20 years old, he was invited to tour with the Hungarian violinist, Eduard Remenyi, as his accompanist.
		Johannes Brahms became good friends with the Schumanns, and their friendship remained a close one for the rest of their lives.
	www.amphi.com /~mruane/Biographies/Brahms/brahms.html (618 words)

	Johannes Brahms - an overview of the classical composer
		Brahms however chose the stricter conventions of the classical period, and as a result received much criticism from his more adventurous peers and later composers.
		Brahms' early music career was as a pianist giving recitals in his late teens and 20s, and his exceptionl skills on this instrument brought him attention from the violinist Joachim, and Robert and Clara Schumann who were to befriend him.
		Part of this reticence was the enormous historical figure of Beethoven in whose musical footsteps Brahms was to follow, and indeed his music was compared to Beethoven to the extent that the first Symphony was dubbed "Beethoven's 10th".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /Composers/Johannes-Brahms.htm (520 words)

	Notes on Ein Deutsches Requiem (Johannes Brahms) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Its earliest music, the funeral march of the second movement, was originally conceived as a middle movement for a projected symphony in the mid-1850's, when Brahms was helping Clara Schumann through the traumatic institutionalization and death of her husband Robert, Brahms's friend and mentor.
		As in the second movement, the trajectory of the third is from bleak to jubilant, from morose reflection on the inevitability of one's own death, expressed in a call and response style that draws on operatic recitiative, to hope and faith in God's comfort, a shift again signaled by an exuberant, extended fugal passage.
		Brahms adopts Bach's strategy to his own ends, constructing a musical framework that evades denominational particularity in favor of a more personal vision that, by virtue of the humanity and generosity of the visionary, aspires to the universal.
	www.loudounsymphony.org /notes/brahms-requiem.html (1310 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Brahms Biography
		In the age of the bravura concerto, where the solo instrument is often merely accompanied by the orchestra, Brahms, in his Violin Concerto and two piano concertos, wrote in a truly classical manner that treats soloist and orchestra as symbiotic equals in the tradition of Mozart and Beethoven.
		Brahms later acknowledged that this early contact with the opposite sex from such a strange vantage point contributed to his ultimately remaining a lifelong bachelor.
		Brahms was famously brusque and prickly on the surface, although friends knew this was to guard a very sensitive and vulnerable soul.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/brahms_bio.html (1128 words)

	Great Masters: Brahms—His Life and Music (Detailed Description)
		Brahms was born in the red-light district of Hamburg on May 7, 1833.
		Brahms and Clara fell in love, but Brahms was unable to act on his feelings, even after Robert's death in the summer of 1856.
		In 1871, Brahms accepted the position of Director of the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna, where he was free to study and conduct the music he chose, including that of Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, along with Mendelssohn and Schumann.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/757.asp (1135 words)

	BRAHMS ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brahms was not a very religious man, in fact he started his career as a whorehouse pianist at the Hamburg docks.
		Brahms wrote to his friend Clara Schumann in 1854..."I'm making a gentle portrait of you in the form of an adagio".
		Johannes Brahms occupies a heady, prominent position in the pantheon of classical composers, yet he is also one of the most misunderstood.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/brahms.html (1228 words)

	Brahms, Johannes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Brahms became the devoted friend of Robert and Clara Schumann, both of whom admired his compositions.
		Brahms never married, although he had several love affairs and remained deeply attached to Clara Schumann for years after her husband’s death.
		Brahms wrote four symphonies, which are considered among the greatest in symphonic music.
	www.bartleby.com /65/br/Brahms-J.html (455 words)

	Romantic Composers - Johannes Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brahms encountered new horizons living and learning with Schumann, but five months later Robert suffered a mental collapse that made him an invalid.
		Brahms finally settled in Vienna and remained there for thirty-five years as a composer and teacher.
		In addition to his place as one of music's great composers, Brahms was one of history's first musicologists, as well as a respected archivist of early music manuscripts, and an acclaimed conductor.
	www.bellevuechamberchorus.net /Research/Romantic/Composer/JBrahms.htm (411 words)

	The Symphony - Johannes Brahms
		Brahms experimented with symphonic ideas in a two-piano sonata, but felt that the task of a complete symphony was beyond him for the time being, and eventually these early sketches resulted in the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op 15.
		Brahms developed a friendship with Clara that lasted until her death in 1896.
		Brahms studied the music of the Baroque masters to hone his contrapuntal technique.
	library.thinkquest.org /22673/brahms.html (812 words)

	onlinekunst.de: Johannes Brahms - Bilder, Biographie und Musik im COMPUTERGARTEN am 7. Mai
		Brahms vermochte eine Melodie zu schreiben, die bis in die kleinste Biegung sein Eigentum war und doch wie ein Volkslied klang.
		Er besucht den Sterbenden, todkranken Mann, der in den letzten Wochen zeitweilig in geistiger Umnachtung lebt, gemeinsam mit Clara.
		Danach geht Johannes Brahms zwei Jahre zurück in seine Heimatstadt Hamburg.
	www.onlinekunst.de /mai/o7_05_Brahms_Johannes.htm (624 words)

	Island of Freedom - Johannes Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brahms was a talented pianist, giving his first public recital at the age of 14, and making a living by playing in taverns and dance halls.
		More fruitful for Brahms was his meeting with Robert Schumann, who hailed the young composer as the coming genius of German music and arranged for the publication of his first songs and piano sonatas.
		Brahms, more than any other composer of the second half of the 19th century, was responsible for reviving what is termed "absolute" music--compositions to be accepted on their own terms as interplays of sound rather than as works that depict a scene or tell a story (program music).
	www.island-of-freedom.com /BRAHMS.HTM (814 words)

	Johannes Brahms - KBAQ 89.5 FM - Your Classical Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After Brahms was rejected for a post as conductor in Hamburg in 1862, he visited Vienna and later (1868) made his home there.
		Brahms conducted the orchestra of the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna from 1872 to 1875, after which he devoted himself entirely to composition.
		Brahms made his will in 1891 and then embarked with renewed vigor on the composition of many of his best works.
	kbaq.rio.maricopa.edu /music/classicalanswers/biographies/brahms (795 words)

	Brahms, Johannes on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his day, Brahms's conservative romanticism was contrasted with Richard Wagner 's dramatic romantic style, and a controversy raged between supporters of Brahms and the followers of the “neo-German” school led by Liszt and Wagner.
		The Violin Concerto in D (1878), the Piano Concerto in B Flat (1878-81), and the Piano Quintet in F Minor (1864) are staples of the concert repertory.
		Brahms: 1897-1997 I. (crítica del compositor Johannes Brahms)(TA: critique of the composer Johannes Brahms)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/brahms-j1.asp (686 words)

	The BRAHMS detector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BRAHMS measures only a small number of particles emerging from a specific set of angles during each collision.
		BRAHMS is located at the 2 o'clock position on the RHIC ring.
		Visual representation of the data output from the BRAHMS detector during the first gold ion collisions at RHIC.
	www.bnl.gov /RHIC/BRAHMS.htm (100 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born to a poor family in the slums of Hamburg, Germany, Brahms studied music as best he was able while supporting himself by playing piano at bars and brothels and by turning out arrangements of light music.
		But Brahms later abandoned this track, devoting himself instead to synthesizing the Classical forms with the almost by now forgotten early Romanticism, with its slowly unraveling sense of tonality.
		Many of Brahms' later works are undoubtedly his best, including the Four Serious Songs, the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, and the last two of his four symphonies.
	ipl.si.umich.edu /div/mushist/rom/brahms.htm (307 words)

	Organ Composers: Johannes Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brahms traveled extensively over the next few years, settling in Vienna in 1878.
		Brahms received an honorary doctorate from Breslau University; he was offered another in 1876 from Cambridge University.
		Brahms is often dubbed the third "B"Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
	www.byu.edu /music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/brahms.html (234 words)

	Lesson Tutor : Classical Composer Series
		Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 in North Germany, in a tiny two room flat in one of the poorer neighbourhoods of Hamburg.
		Schumann was overwhelmed by his music, referring to Brahms as 'the young eagle' and hailing him as a genius in an article published in a high quality musical journal.
		People generally love Brahms for the strength of his musical thinking, tempered by other romantic aspects of his personality; the sunny warmth and occasional tenderness behind the gruff exterior; and the dark but beautiful mood of his closing years.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf2.html (1361 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Brahms created a style that blended the lyrical and intellectual and served as a contrast to the progressive style of the New German School.
		Brahms died of cancer in 1897, not long after the death of his one love and close friend, Clara Schumann.
		Brahms is an important figure in German music, standing almost as a rock of classicism in the onrushing stream of the new styles created by Wagner, Liszt and others.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/brahms.html (662 words)

	Brahms
		Although it would be difficult to make the case that Brahms makes as much historical impact or has as much command of form as did Beethoven, his music continues to be exemplary.
		Brahms captures a spirit of concision and formal innovation within the strict context, and his rather ascerbic personality fits my own rather closely.
		It is the ensemble pieces which form the core of his output, and the one form in which he worked throughout his career is the piano trio.
	www.medieval.org /music/classical/brahms.html (770 words)

	In the Hands » Recordings › Brahms
		Brahms is perhaps the most humane composer I know, a quality which shines through in the elegant simplicity of a piece like this one.
		Learning this, I felt like Brahms was searching in some of the same places I am in my own music: the piece is perpetually ambiguous and unresolved, yet within that ambiguity is a deep sense of order, an abundance of logical patterns.
		These late Brahms pieces — same with the first recording in this weblog — are amazing to me as a composer.
	innig.net /music/inthehands/category/recordings/brahms (1177 words)

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