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Johannes Brahms

Geburtstag: 7. Mai 1833
Todesdatum: 3. April 1897

Johannes Brahms war ein deutscher Komponist, Pianist und Dirigent, dessen Kompositionen vorwiegend der Hochromantik zugeordnet werden. Durch die gleichzeitige Einbeziehung von klassischen Formen gehen sie aber über diese hinaus. Brahms gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

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„Oh, das schmeckt gut. Danke!“

— Johannes Brahms
Letzte Worte zu seiner Krankenschwester, die ihm ein Glas Wein gegeben hatte, 3. April 1897

„Du hast keinen Begriff davon, wie es unsereinem zu Mute ist, wenn er immer so einen Riesen (Beethoven) hinter sich marschieren hört.“

— Johannes Brahms
Max Kalbeck: Johannes Brahms. 1. Band, 4. Auflage, Berlin: Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1921, S. 165 zeno. org

„If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.“

— Johannes Brahms

„There is so much that is true in your letter — if not all— and I must confess that with remorse and regret; but with pleasure and satisfaction I realise how kind it is — only an angel like you could have written so kindly... Life is a wild polyphony, but often a good woman like you can bring about some exquisite resolution of its discords.“

— Johannes Brahms
Letter to Clara Schumann (15 October 1868), as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 340

„I wish I could write to you as tenderly as I love you and tell you all the good things that I wish you. You are so infinitely dear to me, dearer than I can say... If things go on much longer as they are at present I shall have sometime to put you under glass or to have you set in gold. If only I could live in the same town with you and my parents... Do write me a nice letter soon. Your letters are like kisses.“

— Johannes Brahms
Letter to Clara Schumann (31 May 1856) as quoted in Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896 (1971), edited by Berthold Litzmann

„If there is any one here tonight whom I have not offended, I apologize!“

— Johannes Brahms
As quoted (prefaced by the qualification, "There is a story that one evening, on leaving, Brahms said...") in One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters: Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=irUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12 (1917), edited by Henry T. Finck, p. XII

„On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.“

— Johannes Brahms
Discussion of the Chaconne in Bach's Partita for Violin #2. Litzman, Berthold (editor). "Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853–1896". Hyperion Press, 1979, p. 16.