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Johannes Brahms

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Profession
Composer
Died
Apr 3, 1897
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
HamburgGermany
About
Virtuoso pianist and composer whose best-known pieces include "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel" and the "Saint Anthony Variations." He has been referred to as one of the "Three Bs," alongside Bach and Beethoven. He was a notorious perfectionist and destroyed several of his own works. 
Family
He was the child of musician Johann Jakob Brahms and seamstress Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen. His father was his first musical instructor.

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