Brahms: Waltzes / Cadenzas / Die Schone Magelone

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Cat No: 8553426

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099442626

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BRAHMS

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Johannes Brahms(1833 -1897) Four Songs fromDie schone MageloneCadenzas Johannes Brahms was bornon 7th May 1833in the Gangeviertel district of Hamburg, the son of Johann Jakob Brahms, adouble-bass player, and his wife, a seamstress seventeen years his senior. A?ºwas natural, he was at first taught music by his father, the violin and cello,with the intention that the boy should follow his father's trade, but hisobvious interest in the piano led to lessons on the instrument from aninspiring teacher and his first modest appearance on the concert platform atthe age of ten. From this time onwards he became a pupil of Eduard Marxsen, whogave him a firm grounding in classical technique, while he earned money for hisfamily by playing the piano in establishments of doubtful reputation in the St.Pauli district of the port, frequented. largely by sailors and others in searchof amusement. By the age of fifteen he had given his first solo concert as apianist. In 1853 Brahms embarkedon a concert tour with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, during thecourse of which he visited Liszt in Weimar, to no effect, andstruck up a friendship with the violinist Joseph Joachim, through whose agencyhe met the Schumanns then established in D??sseldorf. The connection was animportant one. Schumann was impressed enough by the music Brahms played him tohail him as the long-awaited successor to Beethoven, and his subsequentbreak-down in February 1854 and ensuing insanity brought Brahms back toD??sseldorf to help his wife Clara Schumann and her young family. Therelationship with Clara Schumann, one of the most distinguished pianists of thetime, lasted until her death in 1896. Further concert activityand his association with Joachim and Clara Schumann allowed Brahms to meet manyof the most famous musicians of the day. In 1857 he took a temporary positionat the court of Detmold as a conductor and piano teacher, duties that hebriefly resumed again in the fol1owing two years, continuing al1 the time hisactivity as a composer and spending much of his time in Hamburg, where hisambitions were always to centre. Brahms first visited Vienna in 1862,giving concerts there and meeting during the course of the winter the critic EduardHans1ick, who was to prove a doughty champion. The fol1owing year broughtappointment as conductor of the Vienna Singakademie for the season and in 1864he again spent the winter in the city, a pattern repeated in the fol1owingyears until he final1y took up permanent residence there in 1869. For the restof his 1ife he remained a citizen of Vienna, travel1ing oftenenough to visit friends or to give concerts, and general1y spending the summermonths in the country, where he might concentrate on composition without unduedisturbance. He came in some ways to occupy a position similar to Beethoven inthe musical life of the city, his notorious rudeness general1y tolerated andhis bachelor habits indulged by an admiring circle of friends. He died
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