Johannes Brahms was the son of an instrumentalist of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society. He showed a natural flare for music at a young age. He started earning from a young age by playing the piano in different pubs, hotels, tap houses etc. He managed to associate himself with celebrated violinists like Joseph Joachim and Eduard Remenyi in his twenties. The great composer Robert Schumann followed his career and found in him a contender and became an amicable and trusted counselor. Robert Schumann was an enthusiastic supporter and motivated his career and was very helpful in making him a success. They appreciated each other. When Brahms was a youth Schumann praised him that he will be a ‘greatest hope for the future’. He was a close and intimate friend to Clara Wieck Schumann, the widow of Schumann after he passed away in 1856. She was a songster and a piano player.
He was one of the famous “Troika” or the “Three Bs” namely Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. He was elevated to the status because of his unequivocal compositions in the classical music. He was a foremost songster of the Romantic era’s later part. His music reflected the classical... show more

Johannes Brahms was the son of an instrumentalist of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society. He showed a natural flare for music at a young age. He started earning from a young age by playing the piano in different pubs, hotels, tap houses etc. He managed to associate himself with celebrated violinists like Joseph Joachim and Eduard Remenyi in his twenties. The great composer Robert Schumann followed his career and found in him a contender and became an amicable and trusted counselor. Robert Schumann was an enthusiastic supporter and motivated his career and was very helpful in making him a success. They appreciated each other. When Brahms was a youth Schumann praised him that he will be a ‘greatest hope for the future’. He was a close and intimate friend to Clara Wieck Schumann, the widow of Schumann after he passed away in 1856. She was a songster and a piano player.
He was one of the famous “Troika” or the “Three Bs” namely Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. He was elevated to the status because of his unequivocal compositions in the classical music. He was a foremost songster of the Romantic era’s later part. His music reflected the classical principles of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. His oratorios, symphonies, anthems, piano compositions and chamber music are permeated by poignant emotions and his work is amazingly planned and performed.
Brahm’s German Requiem (1863-1867) is one of his enterprising compositions. The four sonatas’ are very significant, majestic and profusely composed. They are the fundamentals of the harmonious compositions. His compositions in the various types have become classics. Some of his work showed little difference in idea to that of his contemporaries like Schumann (1854), Handel (1861) and Paganini (1862-63) and similarly created a collection of ballades, rhapsodies, intermezzi which were in the form of dances. His classical music concerts are enormous and are in a distinctive style. He created amazing and incomparable pieces for clarinet, the instrument mostly unnoticed by other composers of his generation. His creation of chamber music is complicated and elegantly created for the era of romance. The trio in A minor, Op.114 and the two sonatas, Op.120 composed of the clarinet are matchless. His contemporary Beethoven produced 32 piano sonatas and even though Brahms had no appeal for the piano he composed three pieces that were sensational and capacious. His concertos for the violin (1878) and the two pieces for piano (1856-1859 and 1881) were for the instrumentalists who had resilience and methodological talent. He was a monarch whose composition all others in the dominion of keyboard music of the nineteenth century.
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