Brahms Q&A

Q&A

Quiz Yourself About the Life and Music of

Johannes Brahms

1.

What are the dates for Brahms?

2.

Where was Brahms born and where did he spend his adolescence?

3.

What was Brahms’s father’s occupation?

4.

Who was called “the wrong Brahms”?

5.

How did Brahms help his family finances as a teenager and what effect did this have on him?

6.

What was Brahms’s main instrument and who was his main teacher?

7.

What was the 1860 Manifesto?

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9.

What are the main genres Brahms composed in, and what genre was he most prolific in?

10.

How did Brahms earn his living, and why was it quite unusual?

11.

What is a musical cipher and what are some famous musical ciphers by Brahms and Schumann?

12.

What was the cause of death for Brahms?

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