Johannes Brahms 1870 - 1897 By 1868 Brahms had moved to Vienna, the capital of European classical music, and had acquired two more powerful advocates, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim and the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick.(*) Both men saw Brahms as the last best hope of the anti-Wagnerites, and though Brahms admired the older composer's music but disliked his "stilted, bombastic" language and dramaturgy--he would become the unwilling focus of organized opposition to the Wagner cult. Brahms's long-awaited …showed first 75 words of 1845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1845 total…the G Minor Piano Quartet or in the double concerto, reveal lighter sides of his musical personality. His choral music includes the finest Protestant church music since that of Bach, and in his songs he created the perfect partnership for voice and piano, although he selected many undeserving texts for them. His piano writing is more difficult than it sounds; hence, these works appeal to pianists who are more concerned with musicality than with virtuosity.