Composer

Johannes Brahms

German composer and pianist

1833 - 1897

EN.WIKIPEDIA PAGE VIEWS (PV)

Photo of Johannes Brahms

Icon of person Johannes Brahms

His biography is available in 129 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 128 in 2024). Johannes Brahms is the 14th most popular composer (up from 15th in 2024), the 28th most popular biography from Germany (down from 27th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Composer.

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

Memorability Metrics

920k

Page Views

Past 12 months

85.79

HPI

Historical Popularity Index

Data Insights

#1

Johannes Brahms is the most memorable of the 197 notable people born in Hamburg, Germany.

129

Johannes Brahms's biography appears in 129 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Composers.

May 7

Johannes Brahms shares a May 7 birthday with Plato, Josip Broz Tito, and Rabindranath Tagore.

10×

Johannes Brahms's Wikipedia page drew 920k views over the past year — 10× the average among Composers.

Page views of Johannes Brahms by language

Loading...

Among Composers

Among composers, Johannes Brahms ranks 14 out of 1,451. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, and Gustav Mahler. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Johann Strauss II, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, and Felix Mendelssohn.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Johannes Brahms ranks 2. Before him is Alfred Nobel. After him are Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Élie Ducommun, Alexander Borodin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Benjamin Harrison, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Alfred von Schlieffen, J. E. B. Stuart, and Jonas Lie. Among people deceased in 1897, Johannes Brahms ranks 1. After him are Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, Jiroemon Kimura, Edward Drinker Cope, Jacob Burckhardt, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, and Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Others Born in 1833

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1897

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Brahms ranks 28 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Wagner (1813), Karl Benz (1844), Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), and Frederick the Great (1712). After him are Friedrich Engels (1820), Angela Merkel (1954), Max Planck (1858), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anne Frank (1929), and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among Composers In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johannes Brahms ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), George Frideric Handel (1685), and Richard Wagner (1813). After him are Robert Schumann (1810), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Richard Strauss (1864), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), and Carl Maria von Weber (1786).

German born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
العربية•中文•Nederlands•English•Français•Deutsch•Magyar•Italiano•日本語•Polski•Português•Русский•Español