Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahmswas a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. He is considered one of the greatest composers in history, and is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs", a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth7 May 1833
CountryGermany
Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.