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Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs", a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms is often considered both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Baroque and Classical masters. He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and other composers. Brahms aimed to honour the "purity" of these venerable "German" structures and advance them into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.
Actors: Pascal Greggory (actor), Martina Gedeck (actress), Helma Sanders-Brahms (director), Helma Sanders-Brahms (writer), János Rózsa (producer), Malik Zidi (actor), Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre (producer), Jacques Breuer (actor), Györgyi Szakács (costume designer), Thomas Limpinsel (actor), Alfred Hürmer (producer), Colo Tavernier (writer), Isabelle Devinck (editor), Christine Oesterlein (actress), Béla Fesztbaum (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Actors: Elsa Hanewinkel (actress), Benedict Mirow (director), Volker J. Ringe (actor), Hélène Grimaud (actress), Sebastian Mirow (actor), Norbert Funken (actor), Clemens Wallmeier (actor), Rita Lilienbecker (actress), Eline Sickmann (actress), Dennis Lilienbecker (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Philippe Ralet (editor), Tim Southam (director), Michel Ouellette (producer), Robert Schumann (composer), Nathaniël Siri (actor), Catherine Viau (actress), Sylvain Poirier (actor), Ken Roy (actor), Antoine Saito (writer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Friedrich von Thun (actor), Matthias Ponnier (actor), János Darvas (writer), János Darvas (director), Christoph Hermann (editor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Edgar M. Böhlke (actor), Klaus Lindemann (director), Klaus Lindemann (writer), Ricarda Weber (actress), Lili Weber-Andreae (actress), Jürgen Noll (actor), Martin Ehrbächer (actor),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Paul Henreid (actor), Katharine Hepburn (actress), Clarence Brown (producer), Ivan Tors (writer), Clarence Brown (director), Robert Kern (editor), Irma von Cube (writer), Robert Walker (actor), Bernard Schubert (writer), Robert Ardrey (writer), Allen Vincent (writer), Mario Silva (writer),
Plot: Short film adaptation of 'Song of Love (1947)', sketching the artistic triumphs and emotional upheavals in the lives of composer Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Wieck Schumann, and their friend, composer Johannes Brahms. Robert Schumann suffers more than most artists for his art, in that he is a victim of clinical depression, in an age when it could neither be diagnosed nor treated. His wife and friend struggle to support him and his work.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-titleActors: George Davis (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), André Charlot (actor), Torben Meyer (actor), Kurt Katch (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Fred Essler (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), George Chakiris (actor), Paul Henreid (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Henry Daniell (actor), Francis Pierlot (actor),
Plot: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Keywords: asylum, based-on-play, classical-music, composer, debt, disappointment, failure, fictional-biography, loss-of-husband, love-triangleActors: Harald Braun (writer), Karl Hellmer (actor), Hella Thornegg (actress), Leopold von Ledebur (actor), Toni Tetzlaff (actress), Mathias Wieman (actor), Hildegard Knef (actress), Paul Henckels (actor), Knut Hartwig (actor), Hilde Krahl (actress), Friedrich Kayßler (actor), Clemens Hasse (actor), Eduard Bornträger (actor), Harald Braun (director), Werner Eisbrenner (composer),
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: Albert Florath (actor), Harry Hardt (actor), Wolfgang Kieling (actor), Josefine Dora (actress), Jürgen von Alten (director), Hanns Marschall (writer), Walter Sieber (composer), Hans von Wolzogen (producer), Erika Raphael (actress), Hilde Seipp (actress), Ellinor Büller (actress), Hansjörg Adolfi (actor), Lydia Binder (writer), Gretl Reinwald (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Robert Wüllner (producer), Walter Janssen (director), Paul Hörbiger (actor), Hans Junkermann (actor), Henry Lorenzen (actor), Oscar Sabo (actor), Otto Sauter-Sarto (actor), Hans Hermann Schaufuß (actor), Oskar Sima (actor), Hugo Werner-Kahle (actor), Olga Limburg (actress), Gretl Theimer (actress), Hugo Flink (actor), Johanna Ewald (actress), Max Wallner (writer),
Genres: ,When the silvery moon
Shines through the flutt'ring leaves,
When her pale, drowsy light
Over the field she throws,
And the nightingale warbles,
I go sadly o'er hill and vale.
Somewhere hid in the leaves
Two softly cooing doves fill my heart with delight
Yet, do I turn away
Turn to shadows that are darker
In my eye is but one tear
Where, O vision whose smile streams like the rosy dawn
Through the depths of my soul, where
On this earth are you?
In my eye is but one tear,
It burns me,
Burns upon my cheek.