Johannes Brahms
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 Johannes Brahms facts

• Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria
• His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow
• Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus
• A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works
• He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends)
• Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire
• Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished
• Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator
• His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters
• While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar