Brahms
Famous lullaby composer
Brahms refers to Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), the German composer whose symphonies, concertos, and chamber music represent the apex of Romantic-era classical tradition.
His work is dense, emotionally rich, and technically demanding: We're playing Brahms tonight.
In British rhyming slang, Brahms (short for "Brahms and Liszt") means drunk: He was completely Brahms by midnight.
Nineteenth-century German composer
- BeethovenGerman classical music giant
- BachGerman composer surname
- MozartEighteenth-century Austrian composer
- SchubertViennese song composer
Mendelssohn · Liszt · Wagner · Dvořák · Bruckner · Mahler · Haydn · Handel
Extended compositions for orchestra
- concertosWorks for soloist and orchestra
- requiemMass for the deceased
- lullabySoothing song for babies
- liederArchaic word for songs
chamber music · sonatas · rhapsodies · quartets · trios · variations · waltzes · serenades
German city-state, major port
- ViennaAustrian capital
- pianistOne who plays piano
- conductorOne who directs musicians
- beardFacial hair growth
bachelor · cigars · coffee · nineteenth century · German · honorary doctorate
Established artistic templates
- counterpointSimultaneous independent melodies
- orchestrationScoring for instrumental ensemble
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
- developmentProgress toward maturity
fugue · variations · thematic · harmonic · lyrical · autumnal · introspective · conservative
Schumann
Nineteenth-century German composer
- BeethovenGerman classical music giant
- BachGerman composer surname
- MozartEighteenth-century Austrian composer
Schubert · Mendelssohn · Liszt · Wagner · Dvořák · Bruckner · Mahler · Haydn · Handel · Chopin
symphonies
Extended compositions for orchestra
lieder · chamber music · sonatas · rhapsodies · quartets · trios · variations · waltzes · serenades
Hamburg
German city-state, major port
beard · bachelor · cigars · coffee · nineteenth century · German · honorary doctorate
classical forms
Established artistic templates
- counterpointSimultaneous independent melodies
- orchestrationScoring for instrumental ensemble
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
development · fugue · variations · thematic · harmonic · lyrical · autumnal · introspective · conservative
- German ComposersBach, Beethoven, Handel, Wagner, Schumann
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel
- ComposersBach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Handel
- GermanyBerlin, Munich, Hamburg, Germany, German
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- Brahms LullabyFamous German lullaby
- Johannes Brahms