COMPOSER

Johannes Brahms

1833 - 1897

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Johannes Brahms (; German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms] ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, often set within studied yet expressive contrapuntal textures. He adapted the traditional structures and techniques of a wide historical range of earlier composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Brahms has received more than 5,576,302 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Johannes Brahms is the 15th most popular composer (down from 12th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Germany and the 6th most popular German Composer.

Johannes Brahms is most famous for his symphonies and his piano concertos.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johannes Brahms ranks 15 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, Antonín Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Georges Bizet, and Claudio Monteverdi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Johannes Brahms ranks 2. Before him is Alfred Nobel. After him are Benjamin Harrison, Wilhelm Dilthey, Alexander Borodin, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Élie Ducommun, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Alfred von Schlieffen, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Edwin Booth, and Félicien Rops. Among people deceased in 1897, Johannes Brahms ranks 1. After him are Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, Jacob Burckhardt, Edward Drinker Cope, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, James Joseph Sylvester, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Brahms ranks 27 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), and Max Planck (1858). After him are Karl Dönitz (1891), Anne Frank (1929), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), and Franz Beckenbauer (1945).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johannes Brahms ranks 6. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), George Frideric Handel (1685), and Robert Schumann (1810). After him are Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), and Carl Orff (1895).

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