#johannes brahms

[diioonysus]

"A death mask is a likeness of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits.

The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages until the 19th century was to serve as a model for sculptors in creating statues and busts of the deceased person. Not until the 1800s did such masks become valued for themselves.

In other cultures a death mask may be a funeral mask, an image placed on the face of the deceased before burial rites, and normally buried with them. The best known of these are the masks used in ancient Egypt as part of the mummification process, such as the mask of Tutankhamun, and those from Mycenaean Greece such as the Mask of Agamemnon."

[thedarkmongoose]

if you experienced nbc hannibal purely through musical cues, you’d know it was a rom-com right away. look at his lovesick expression in this scene (with the liebeslieder waltzes playing in the bg) - he made prosciutto roses! heart tartare! beef roulade! there’s a romantic theme to each of these dishes, and we all know it wasn’t for alana lol. he’s down cataclysmic.

“While there is no concrete record indicating the exact inspiration for the (Liebeslieder) Waltzes, there is speculation that Brahms' motivation for the songs was his frustrated love for pianist and composer Clara Schumann.”

[bussyplease]

I made this a while ago on paint at midnight in a fever like state and needed to post it here

[garadinervi]

Armin Hofmann, J. Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Basler Sinfonieorchester, Basel, 1986 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]

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Round 1 begins on January 16th!!!

[scherzokinn]

*Sonata in B minor*

Low effort mental breakdown post

[lascitasdelashoras]

Partituras manuscritas: Carl María Von Weber, Franz Schubert, J. S. Bach - Johannes Brahms - Joseph Hayden - Joseph Leopold Eybler - Ludwig V. Beethoven -Richard Wagner - Schumann - Richard Strauss

[gasparodasalo]

Johannes Brahms (1833-97) - Piano Quartet No. 3 in c-minor, Op. 60, II. Scherzo. Allegro. Performed by La Gaia Scienza on period instruments.

[marcelshistorydump]

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[livingbreathingsunseeker]

I was just watching channel 4 and the guy compared the backing track of an ABBA song to Brahms???

ABBA????

Brahms?????????

Somebody show me the similarity I don’t get it

[deadpanwalking]

walks out of Brahms' German Requiem covered in blood with a goofy lovestruck smile on my face

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: 45-year-old composer, conductor, and pianist Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) shocks the Viennese musical world of 1878 by revealing the famous big bushy beard that he will sport for the rest of his life.

Having always been clean-shaven up to that point, Brahms warned one friend in advance of the big reveal: "I am coming [to the concert] with a large beard! Prepare your wife for a most awful sight.”

Singer George Henschel (1850 – 1934) recalled what happened that night:

"I saw a man who was unknown to me, rather stout, of middle height, and with long hair and a full beard, approaching... In a very deep and hoarse voice, he gravely introduced himself as 'Musikdirektor Muller from Braunschweig.' ... An instant later, we all found ourselves laughing heartily at the perfect success of Brahms's disguise.”

Brahms was a notorious practical joker, and he must have savored the confusion he had caused. Even better, not everyone caught on so quickly – his good friend, the noted Beethoven scholar Gustav Nottebohm (1817 – 1892), apparently spent a whole evening conversing earnestly with ‘Kapellmeister Muller.’

Poor Nottebohm was also the target of one of Brahms’s most infamous practical jokes. Once, on a scrap of old music paper that he had procured, Brahms jotted down a then-current pop tune in an expert imitation of Beethoven’s musical handwriting (Brahms was an autograph collector) and bribed a local street vendor to wrap the manuscript around a sausage and sell it to Nottebohm. Brahms then arranged to be with him when this exchange occurred, and he was delighted to see the old pedant unwrap the sausage, step under a streetlight to furtively examine the paper (with his eyes popping out), and then slip it into his pocket and finish eating the greasy sausage, barehanded…

PICTURED: A copy of one of the last photos taken of the beardless Brahms, which he signed on the front with an inscription on the back that is actually dated to the year *after* he unveiled his beard.

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Propaganda:

Mendelssohn:

My absolute favourite violin concerto. That dramatic first movement with the gorgeous second theme. The most EXQUISITE second movement (when the violin hits the high C my heart just melts). The super joyful and fun third movement. The fact that each movement flows into the next. Please vote my boy Mendelssohn please my heart will be as happy as when it listens to this piece Recording: Hilary Hahn (YouTube link: https://youtu.be/SDwKJ6bBXEA?si=w7wQwK-NliQiCLVV). I travelled to another country just to hear her play this live. She is THAT GOOD 😍

Brahms:

as an orchestral cellist lemme just say brahms knew how to write the shit out of an accompaniment!! this is one of my absolute favorite all-around pieces to play, the melodies are so delicious. soloists always take liberties with rubato in the third movement and it's so much fun. also one time i was hanging out with a friend who insulted this concerto by complaining that it "doesn't do or say anything" and i literally saw red. can we just prove my friend wrong out of spite please

Once I listened to the Brahms violin concerto on an airplane and I think listening to the strings as we broke cloud cover and watching the pink sunlight on the tops of the clouds is the closest I've seen to capital-H Heaven

[kenora-pizza]

Listening to these classical piano pieces, thinking about the Caledonian twins

Can you guess which twin I’m thinking of for each piece?

[waiting-eyez]

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

(Johannes Brahms)

[gasparodasalo]

Albert Dietrich (1829-1908) / Robert Schumann (1810-56) / Johannes Brahms (1833-97) - 'F.A.E.' Sonata for Violin and Piano in a-minor (1853), I. Allegro (Dietrich). Performed by Sergiu Luca, violin, and Brian Connelly, fortepiano, on period instruments.

The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is a collaborative musical work by three composers: Robert Schumann, the young Johannes Brahms, and Schumann’s pupil Albert Dietrich. It was composed in Düsseldorf in October 1853.