In his youth, this composer embarked on an early trip with violinist Eduard Reményi, during which he scandalously fell asleep during a performance of Liszt's Piano Sonata and met lifelong friend Joseph Joachim, to whom he dedicated his Violin Concerto in D major.
In his youth, this composer embarked on an early trip with violinist Eduard Reményi, during which he scandalously fell asleep during a performance of Liszt's Piano Sonata and met lifelong friend Joseph Joachim, to whom he dedicated his Violin Concerto in D major. After the premiere of the first of his four symphonies, which debuted when he was forty-three, he commented that "any ass" could see the similarities between it and the Choral symphony. The death of his mother and Robert Schumann inspired this composer to write a sacred work that uses text from the Luther Bible. For 10 points, name this German composer whose first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth," who also composed the Academic Festival Overture and A German Requiem.
In his youth, this composer embarked on an early trip with violinist Eduard Reményi, during which he scandalously fell asleep during a performance of Liszt's Piano Sonata and met lifelong friend Joseph Joachim, to whom he dedicated his Violin Concerto in D major.
Johannes Brahms