Johannes Brahms Article

How did Johannes Brahms become famous?

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The violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whom Johannes Brahms befriended in 1853, instantly realized Brahms’s talent and recommended him to the composer Robert Schumann. Schumann praised Brahms’s compositions in the periodical Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. The article created a sensation. From this moment Brahms was a force in the world of music.