Brahms Biographical Information
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Brief Biography |
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Biographie auf Deutsch |
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(from Musicologie.org,
prepared by Jean-Marc Warszawski) |
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Classical Archives Biography |
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Brahms WebSource Timeline
1833 Born 7 May in |
1840 Begins studies with Otto Cossel |
1845 Begins studies with Edward Marxsen |
1848 First public performance as a solo pianist |
1853 Meets Hungarian violinist Remenyi
(Eduard Hoffmann) and they tour through North Joseph Joachim. They then travel
on to Brahms then leaves Remenyi for
Düsseldorf and on 31 October he meets Robert and Clara Schumann. Schumann's
article Neue Bahnen appears in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. Brahms then moves on to returns to |
1854 Accepts position as Director of Court
Concerts and Choral Society for the Prince of Lippe-Detmold. In February, Robert
Schumann has a breakdown, and Brahms returns to Düsseldorf |
1856 29 July: Robert Schumann dies |
1857 Brahms returns to repeated in the autumn of the next
two years), where he worked as court pianist, chamber musician, and Conductor
of the Court Choir |
1858 Gives up the Lippe-Detmold appointment.
Spends March and April in Schumann, and the summer in
Göttingen where he meets Agathe von Siebold |
1859 Mostly in |
1860 Moves to Winterthür, to be near Theodor
Kirchner |
1861 Visits |
1862 June: Attends the Rhein Music Festival
in Köln, combined with a visit to Clara Schumann in Münster am Stein. In July, goes back to September, takes up permanent
residence in Weiner Singakademie. Meets
Richard Wagner and Elisabeth von Stockhausen |
1863 1 May: Left Blankensee, as Stockhausen was
offered the job in Hamburg Brahms had wanted. By the end of May he was back in
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1864 Resigns his post as Director of the
Singakademie and in mid-June returns to for a visit |
1865 31 January: Brahms's mother dies |
1866 August: to Zürich and |
1868 Settles permanently in throughout In May he travels again to |
1872 11 February: Brahms's father dies Musikfreunde |
1873 In the summer, visits Starnberger See |
1874 Summer: In Rüschlikon, Ziegelhausen, Kalbeck |
1875 18 April: Resigns as conductor of the
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. In the summer travels as
previous summer, and develops his friendship with poet Gottfried Keller |
1876 Summer: as in 1874 and 1875. Also
travels to In December travels back to |
1877 Concerts in Summer in Portschach am
Wörthersee with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg |
1878 Visit to In the late summer, travels to |
1880 May in Schumann. Spends the summer in Bad Ischl |
1881 February: Offered Meinigen court
orchestra as a 'rehearsal orchestra', and at the end of the year travels to Meinigen |
1882 January in Spring in Summer in Bad Ischl |
1883 Summer in |
1884 Summer in Meinigen, then to Mürzzuschlag |
1885 October in Meinigen for the rehearsal of
his Fourth Symphony. Immediately
after takes a tour through |
1886 This summer is the first of three
summers in Hofstetten on |
1887 Death of Edward Marxsen. Brahms
interrupts his summer visit in Hofstetten to visit Clara Schumann in |
1889 Brahms appointed a "Freeman of
Hamburg". From this year onward, spends his summers in Bad Ischl |
1890 October: Began 'cleaning house', and
destroying incomplete works or abandoned compositions |
1892 Death of his sister Elise; death of
Elisabeth von Herzogenberg |
1893 Death of Hermine Spies |
1895 Death of Brahms's brother Fritz; death
of Billroth. Brahms's last visit to |
1896 21 May: Clara Schumann dies in In September Brahms goes to
Karlsbad for treatment |
1897 26 March: Brahms is bedridden in |
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