Brahms Archive

The violin music by Johannes Brahms was part of my childhood because my father was an amateur violinist. Then as a young adult I played the three Brahms violin sonatas myself. Time passed and yesterday …

Brahms’ B-flat Piano Concerto (1881) dates from the start of the composer’s ripest maturity, the period when his fame had reached a peak throughout Europe and his physical image as we know it best was …

Violinist Julia Fischer was born in 1983, in Munich, Germany. She began taking lessons on the violin at age 3 from Helge Thelen, and at 4 began simultaneous studies on the piano with her mother, …

Many years ago, when a young German composer approached the task of writing symphonies, it was impossible to work outside the shadow of Beethoven. Brahms himself summed up the problem by stating, “You will never …

By March 1891 Brahms had composed nothing for more than a year; But then, when Brahms was visiting Meiningen, the conductor of the court orchestra drew his attention to the playing of their erstwhile violinist, …