Johannes Brahms was a German composer. He was born in 1833 at Hamburg and died in 1897. The son of a musician, he made a position for himself as composer and pianist at an early age, and his musical compositions received the approval of Liszt and Schumann. The greater part of his life was spent at Vienna, and was entirely devoted to composition. His works are very numerous, and belong to several different classes, but include no operas, though two overtures are among them. They comprise three hundred solo songs, a number of sacred and secular choral works, concerted vocal works, orchestral works, chamber music, pianoforte solos, Hungarian dances arranged as duets for the piano, etc. Brahms ranks among musicians as a classicist, and is now admitted to be one of the great musicians of Germany. Research Johannes Brahms
A cantata is a poem set to music. The term also describes a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner. It was originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody. Research Cantata
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