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navigation, search Johannes Brahms  Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833
- 3 April 1897) was a famous German composer. He started his
career as a pianist. He was always very self-critical and
destroyed any composition he thought was not really good. He
thought that people were expecting him to be the “next
Beethoven”, and spent many years on his first symphony before he
allowed it to be performed. He wrote four symphonies, four
concertos, a requiem, piano music, chamber music and songs.
Perhaps his best known tune is his Wiegenlied ("cradle song"),
often called "Brahms' Lullaby," used in many a child’s musical
box.  His life[change | change source]  Early years[change |
change source]  Brahms was born in Germany. His father was a
double bass player in the Hamburg city orchestra. He probably
gave the young boy his first music lessons. He soon was learning
the piano with a teacher named Otto Cossel. When Brahms played
in a public concert in 1843 an American