Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woman he ...

In Now Hear This Season 7, Scott Yoo travels across Germany to unlock a window into the inner world of Johannes Brahms. Use ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

My mother, the mineralogist Daphne Ross, died on February 24th, at the age of ninety-one, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. It was late evening in Los Angeles when my brother called with the ...

The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the tears, which makes it heartbreaking. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, ...

Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

Among those celebrated for their eloquence in the art of music, especially instrumental music, it’s worth noting how well they wielded the foreign art of language. It’s not surprising that the prose ...

The BSO delivered their all-Brahms program with great success, thanks to the exceptional guest conductors Lisa Wong and, of ...

Johannes Brahms, bewhiskered composer of four symphonies, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges ever levelled at a musical genius - the accusation that he was a serial cat slayer. For ...