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Johannes Brahms=


 * 1) Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra.
 * 2) He wrote A German Requiem.
 * 3) Brahms was friends with Robert Schumann.
 * 4) He lived in Hamburg,Germany
 * 5) His momther died in 1865
 * 6) He gave 2 piano concerts in 1848
 * 7) At age 6 he would put down tunes he had composed using his own system of dots and lines
 * 8) During Brahms late forties he grew a long beard
 * 9) During his life he traveled to Italy eight times to walk the countryside to see the places he read about
 * 10) On April 3,1897 he died after suffering for many months with cance
 * 11) Some of his songs were sung at his funeral
 * 12) There were piles of flowers on this grave
 * 13) Boates raised there flags at the harbor



Famous Composers book 2 by Carolyn Heitman