Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms biographer ...

Modus Operandi Orchestra is inviting audiences to a captivating evening, their 5th concert of music at Merkin Hall. This ...

MUSICChamber music by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms are on the program for the Arkansas Symphony's third 2025-26 ...

Four concerts, eight symphonies, two great composers. Under the direction of Alondra de la Parra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra interprets works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. The highlights ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

I recently read Simon Callow’s excellent biography of Richard Wagner. Now, to be fair, I’m reading a biography of Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford. As in music, in biography these two are opposed. We ...

The concert by pianist Vincenzo Maltempo, dedicated to two giants of German music, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, inaugurates the 2026 program of the Alessandro Scarlatti ...

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and no public performances in the forseeable future, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is streaming its acclaimed performance of Brahms' Requiem – free. April ...

Compare for yourself. Here's what the finale of Brahms' Horn Trio sounds like on the natural (valveless) horn. John Zirbel, principal horn player for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recently joined ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra continues its 76th Season Classics Series with a program of rich emotion and sweeping orchestral ...

Ranking amongst the famous composers in the history of western music, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is no doubt one of the major representatives of the Romantic style, which features most prominently in ...