Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 -- 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist.
Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs".
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. 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 Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.[1]
Brahms is often considered both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Baroque and Classical masters. He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and other composers. Brahms aimed to honour the "purity" of these venerable "German" structures and advance them into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody. 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. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers.
data: 11 maggio 2007
a cura di: Marco Calvo, http://www.marcocalvo.it/link esterno
Stefano D'Urso
licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5
Edizione LiberMusica:
data: 9 gennaio 2009
a cura di: Marco Calvo, http://www.marcocalvo.it/link esterno
Dario Giannozzi
licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
note: Registrazione dal vivo, Carnegie Hall, New York, 2 settembre 1958
note: Registrazione del 1947.
opera: Ouverture Accademica in Do minore, Op. 80
album: Concerto. Brahms (CON-14)
anno: 1958
tipo registrazione: Dal vivo, analogica
etichetta: n. d.
genere: Classica
artisti:
Brahms, Johannes (ruolo: Compositore)
Mitropoulos, Dimitri (ruolo: Direttore)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra (ruolo: Orchestra)
Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs".
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. 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.[1]
Brahms is often considered both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Baroque and Classical masters. He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and other composers. Brahms aimed to honour the "purity" of these venerable "German" structures and advance them into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody. 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. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers.
data: 11 maggio 2007
a cura di: Marco Calvo, http://www.marcocalvo.it/link esterno
Stefano D'Urso
licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5
Edizione LiberMusica:
data: 9 gennaio 2009
a cura di: Marco Calvo, http://www.marcocalvo.it/link esterno
Dario Giannozzi
licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
note: Registrazione dal vivo, Carnegie Hall, New York, 2 settembre 1958
note: Registrazione del 1947.
opera: Ouverture Accademica in Do minore, Op. 80
album: Concerto. Brahms (CON-14)
anno: 1958
tipo registrazione: Dal vivo, analogica
etichetta: n. d.
genere: Classica
artisti:
Brahms, Johannes (ruolo: Compositore)
Mitropoulos, Dimitri (ruolo: Direttore)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra (ruolo: Orchestra)
- Category
- Classical
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