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Definition of Brahms
1. Noun. German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897).
2. Noun. The music of Brahms. "Brahms was included in the program"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brahms
Literary usage of Brahms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1899)
"True and sincere mourners will also be those who could not but acknowledge, even
if only in theory, that since the death of Liszt, brahms was undoubtedly ..."
2. Story-lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Moore Brower (1922)
"XVIII JOHANNES brahms IT has been truly said that great composers cannot be ...
For instance it is impossible to compare Wagner and brahms; the former could ..."
3. Imperial Vienna: An Account of Its History, Traditions and Arts by A. S. Levetus (1905)
"I saw brahms afterwards in the artists' room go up to the lad and embrace ...
brahms was twenty-nine years of age when he came to live in Vienna ; except ..."
4. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"Von Billow wittily divided conductors into two classes: those who have the score
in their head, and those who have their head in the score. VI FROM brahms ..."
5. The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers; a by George Putnam Upton (1886)
"His first piano teacher was Cossell; but to Eduard Marxsen, the Royal Music
Director, he owes his real success as a composer. brahms remained in Hamburg ..."
6. The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers : a by George Putnam Upton (1887)
"JOHANNES brahms, one of the most eminent of living German composers, ...
brahms remained in Hamburg until 1853, when he went upon a concert-tour with ..."
7. The Story of Chamber Music by Nicholas Kilburn (1904)
"THE individuality of brahms (1833-97) was quite as pronounced as that of Spohr,
although in a different way, but his creative musical powers were much ..."
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