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Johannes Brahms- Violin Concerto In D

Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg Germany on the seventh of May in 1833. His father, Johann Jakob Brahm moved to Germany several years earlier seeking a career as the town musician. He was proficient on several instruments but notably the horn and double bass. Johann married an older seamstress, Christiane Nissen, and began musically training Johannes at an early age. Johannes demonstrated early promise on the piano, as did his younger brother Fritz, and they helped to supplement the family's income by playing the piano in local restaurants and theaters. Studying the piano since age seven and composing and learning theory since eleven, Johannes' early introduction to music is evident in his work. Johannes also gained adumbrate familiarity with both popular and serious styles from arranging music for his father's orchestra. Upon turning twenty he started touring as an accompanist to the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi where he gained attention and met an important contact, Joseph Joachim. The man through which Johannes acquired his reputation and the man who eventually became Brahms's recital partner, musical advisor and life long friend.
Joachim introduced Brahms to yet another important contact, Robert Schumann, who was so impressed by the young man's talent that he published an article, ‘Neue Bahnen' (New Paths) claiming that Brahms was "destined to give ideal expression to the times." Johannes developed a close relationship to Robert's wife, Clara as they spent more time together. She wrote this in her diary the first day Brahms played for her and Robert in 1853, "Here again is one of those who comes as if sent straight from God. . . . Robert says there was nothing he could tell him to take away or add. It is really moving to see him sitting at the piano ... his beautiful hands, which overcome the greatest difficulties with perfect ease ... and in addition these remarkable compositions." After Schumann's death in 1856 Brahms spent his time either in...