Johannes Brahms & the 1818 Brahms Asteroid - Vienna, Austria
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N 48° 11.980 E 016° 22.315
33U E 601942 N 5339402
The composer Johnannes Brahms... one of the "Three B's" associated with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Waymark Code: WMJCFV
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 10/29/2013
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Located in Ressel Park, this larger than life sculpture of Brahms depicts him as an older..and frankly frumpy man seated and wearing coat and vest and looking deep in thought...or perhaps listening to the reclining woman below him playing a lyre.
According to this webpage (
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Wikipedia (
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"Johannes Brahms (...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, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs".
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. 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 Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
As for the asteroid, Wikipedia (
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"1818 Brahms (1939 PE) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 15, 1939 by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It is named for the composer Johannes Brahms."