Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He wrote a wide range of music, including symphonies, ...

Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms biographer ...

Born in Hamburg in 1833, Johannes Brahms was raised on a diet of Bach and Beethoven. But despite the lessons he absorbed from his scores of those masters, he craved a little more spice. That he found ...

Pianist Orli Shaham plays Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 on Saturday and Sunday with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Brahms’ music triggers powerful emotional reactions in listeners, Shaham ...

When Beethoven wrote his massive Ninth Symphony, he left some pretty big shoes for subsequent composers to fill. As Johannes Brahms famously put it: “You can’t have any idea what it’s like always to ...

Violinist Joshua Bell is music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra. Johannes Brahms was the ultimate perfectionist. He spent more than two decades writing his first ...

Probing the music of Johannes Brahms together with star maestro Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, a new DW music documentary turns out to be a challenge and an adventure. At the ...

Johannes Brahms was only 50 when, in December 1890, he told his publisher Fritz Simrock that it was "time to stop". The following May he wrote his will. His notions of retiring went famously by the ...

The first of more than 20 scheduled concerts in five series opens Symphoria’s 2019-2020 season Sept. 21 with three works by Johannes Brahms. Music Director Lawrence Loh will conduct the performance, ...

Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...

A century-old rumor has finally been put to rest: the 19th century classical composer Johannes Brahms did NOT kill cats. According to music historian Calum MacDonald, the rumor was started by a rival ...