Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.
Joseph Joachim
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Joachim's birth house in Kittsee
Joachim's birth house in Kittsee today
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms in 1889
Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943.
Ede Reményi (l.) and Brahms in 1852
Brahms in 1853