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One of the greatest masters of music, , was born on May 7, 1833 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. His father, a double-bass player at the Hamburg Orchestra, was his first teacher, but the man who gave Brahms his first real appreciation for music ....

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... article, "Neue Bahnen"(New Paths), Schumann saluted the twenty year old Brahms as "The coming genius of German music." Schumann also arranged for the publication of Brahms' three piano sonatas and three sets of songs. In 1862, Brahms traveled to Vienna, where he conducted the concerts of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. . After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was ...