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"Johannes Brahms" was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheranism/Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs", a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for 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 Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous composers! More Johannes Brahms on Wikipedia.Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
A symphony is no joke.
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
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