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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Wikipedia Biography
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Brahms WebSource Timeline
1833 Born 7 May in Hamburg, Germany |
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 Germany: to Hanover and Göttingen where Brahms meets German violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim. They then travel on to Weimar, where Brahms meets Franz Liszt. 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 Leipzig for performances of his compositions and later returns to Hamburg |
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 Hamburg. On the way, he spends four months in Detmold (a visit 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 Berlin with Clara Schumann, and the summer in Göttingen where he meets Agathe von Siebold |
1859 Mostly in Hamburg |
1860 Moves to Winterthür, to be near Theodor Kirchner |
1861 Visits Vienna, then travels to Hamm (near Hamburg) |
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 Hamburg. September, takes up permanent residence in Vienna and becomes the Conductor of the Weiner Singakademie. Meets Richard Wagner and Elisabeth von Stockhausen |
1863 1 May: Left Vienna for Hamburg for his 30th birthday, but on the way returned to Blankensee, as Stockhausen was offered the job in Hamburg Brahms had wanted. By the end of May he was back in Vienna for the Singakademie |
1864 Resigns his post as Director of the Singakademie and in mid-June returns to Hamburg for a visit |
1865 31 January: Brahms's mother
dies |
1866 August: to Zürich and Baden-Baden |
1868 Settles permanently in Vienna, after having toured with Joachim and Stockhausen throughout Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands. In May he travels again to Hamburg |
1872 11 February: Brahms's father
dies Musikfreunde |
1873 In the summer, visits Starnberger See |
1874 Summer: In Rüschlikon, Ziegelhausen, Sassnitz, Hamburg, and Lichtenthal. Meets Max 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 Mannheim. At Rügen meets Henschel. In December travels back to Vienna |
1877 Concerts in Leipzig, and reunion with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg. Summer in Portschach am Wörthersee with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg |
1878 Visit to Leipzig; summer as in 1877. In the late summer, travels to Hamburg for concert of his works |
1880 May in Bonn for the unveiling of Schumann's memorial, and visit with Clara 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 Berlin Spring in Vienna. Summer in Bad Ischl |
1883 Summer in Wiesbaden where he meets Hermine Spies |
1884 Summer in Meinigen, then to Mürzzuschlag |
1885 October in Meinigen for the rehearsal of his Fourth Symphony. Immediately after takes a tour through Germany and the Netherlands |
1886 This summer is the first of three summers in Hofstetten on Lake Thun |
1887 Death of Edward Marxsen. Brahms interrupts his summer visit in Hofstetten to visit Clara Schumann in Frankfurt |
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 Switzerland |
1896 21 May: Clara Schumann dies in Bonn. In September Brahms goes to Karlsbad for treatment |
1897 26 March: Brahms is bedridden in Vienna, and on 3 April he dies. |
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