Johannes Brahms - Documentary about the German Composer | Part 1

Brahms wrote his first but unpublished violin sonata in 1853, when he was 19 years old. He wrote it for a tour of North Germany with the Exarch Hungarian violinist. It was to turn out to be the most significant year of his early life with echoes that will ring on for the rest of his days. In addition to his own sonata, the programm for the tour included Beethoven’s C minor sonata Opus 30, the Vieuxtemps concerto in E and Ernst Elegie. Brahms played the entire programm from memory. He did not even take the