BRAHMS, Johannes (1833 – 1897)
1833 – 1897
1 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1957 CE
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Johannes Brahms and Theodor Billroth: Letters from a musical friendship, edited by Georg Fischer. Translated and edited by Hans Barkan.
BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894) FISCHER, Georg (1836 – 1921) BARKAN, Hans (1882 – 1960) BRAHMS, Johannes (1833 – 1897)
Billroth was a talented pianist and violinist who seriously considered becoming a professional musician before he became a surgeon. "In 1865 he [Billroth] met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pia…