Johannes Brahms
1833-1897
Period of Music: Romantic
Instruments he played: Piano
Major compositions: Waltzes (piano), Hungarian Dances (piano), Rhapsody in G
Major (piano), Academic Festival Overture (orchestra), Variations on a Theme by
Haydn (orchestra), A German Requiem (vocal), Brahms' Lullaby
Interesting Facts:
-Brahms made his piano debut when he was 14
years old.
-Later in life Brahms
destroyed everything he had composed before he was 19.
-Brahms was interested
in folk music throughout his life.
-He was friends with
Robert and Clara Schumann.
-Brahms was born in
Hamburg, Germany but spent most of his later life in Vienna, Austria.
