25 March 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Hamburg, Portrait
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Johannes Brahms in 1889 – New York Public Library – C. Brasch
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the
Romantic period. Born in
Hamburg into a
Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in
Vienna. His reputation and status as a composer are 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Three Bs” of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor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.
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