Johannes Brahms
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Hamburg, Germany (1833 – 1897)
Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos, a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and a pair of orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.
His large choral work Ein deutsches Requiem (“A German Requiem”) is not a traditional, liturgical requiem (Missa pro defunctis), but a setting of texts which Brahms selected from the Lutheran Bible. The work was composed in three major periods of his life. An earlier version of the second movement was first composed in 1854, not long after Robert Schumann’s attempted suicide, and was later finished and used in his first piano concerto. The majority of the Requiem was composed after his mother’s death in 1865. The fifth movement was later added after the official premiere in 1868. The complete work was then published in 1869.
Brahms’s works in variation form include the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the Paganini Variations, both for solo piano, and the Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn in versions for two pianos and for orchestra. The final movement of the Fourth Symphony (Op. 98) is also formally a set of variations.
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LeoBirtwhistle
brahms is goat
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Dikobrazka
Symphonie #3 Op. 90: Poco Allegretto. Delightful.
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aphoticapathy
So nice.
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inhmn
i was very deaf about Brahms. He's so perfect.
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luckystoned
love ~~~♪♫ ♫♪♫♪♫ ♫
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hosomy17
Hungarian Dance No. 5 is sooooooo funny
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Wooshmeister
Look at that beard. Look at it. [2]
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Ph1lippe
Well, a regular piano would have done a much better job!
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crabcorecentral
Any instrument is bad for this
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Ph1lippe
Free songs are not great: the electro keyboard is bad for this...
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crabcorecentral
Santa claus is coming to town"
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frostyk_6y
Where is new album?
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burnschoeger
His double concerto for violin and cello is a masterpiece.
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progtrance7
Probably my favorite 'common practice' composer.
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HardKyu
A terceira sinfonia deste homem é magnificamente uma obra memorável.
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ulyssestone
Complete Brahms (op1-122 & woo1-38 & appendix) in one 58-hour Spotify playlist. Ft. Klemperer, Gardiner, Bernstein, Rattle, Kleiber, Haitink, Abbado, Boult, Barbirolli, Richter, Perahia, Gilels, Argerich, Angelich, Lupu, Katchen, Kovacevich, Curzon, Arrau & more. http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2012/10/johannes-brahms-complete-works-op-1-122.html
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Look at that beard. Look at it.
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love
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Killerdwarf
Ein Deutsches Requiem !!! = so groß
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