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What is Johannes Brahms famous for?

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Throughout Johannes Brahms’s career there is a variety of expression—from the subtly humorous to the tragic—but his larger works show an increasing mastery of movement and an ever-greater economy and concentration. Some of his best-known compositions included Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4, and Hungarian Dances.

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How did Johannes Brahms become famous?

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The violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whom Johannes Brahms befriended in 1853, instantly realized Brahms’s talent and recommended him to the composer Robert Schumann. Schumann praised Brahms’s compositions in the periodical Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. The article created a sensation. From this moment Brahms was a force in the world of music.

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