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 ...

Conductor Marin Alsop has a deep personal feeling for the music of Johannes Brahms. She says she became musically "alive" as a young girl, listening to Brahms, and now she has recorded all four of his ...

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, ...

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 ...

Johannes Brahms spent more than a decade wrestling with his First Symphony - rewriting, second-guessing, and really trying to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The youth orchestra's holiday concert on Dec. 7 includes jazz, soul and video game tunes, with special guest Grammy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...