“If Brahms has always appeared to lie outside the story of late-19th century aesthetics and of Modernism, it is because his music … like the man himself, followed no path but his own. …” So says Jan ...

NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...

Johannes Brahms: A Biography, by Jan Swafford (Alfred A. Knopf). Cloth, $35. BURIED IN THIS book amid a collection of formal portraits of the mature Brahms, Clara Schumann, Johann Strauss, Brahms' ...

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and its director, Michael Tilson Thomas, summoned Johannes Brahms to The Granada on Saturday night for a thrilling evocation of the composer’s first symphony. Once ...

Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. Brahms ...

The Great Romantic, Johannes Brahms, wrote some of the most gorgeous music. Think of his charming and deceptively straightforward little solos for piano like the 'Wiegenlied', his 'Lullaby'. He was a ...