Brahms Plays His Hungarian Dance No.1 (Excerpt), 1889
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Uploaded by transformingArt on Oct 9, 2007
One of the most appraised historical recording of all time; Johannes Brahms plays an excerpt from one of his most famous piece, Hungarian Dance No.1. Recorded on December 2nd, 1889, on a Edison wax cylinder.
(Update : 11/05/03)
There is a very well written article about the history of this cylinder by German collector Stephan Puille, now available on Norman Bruderhofer's The Cylinder Archive (www.cylinder.de) website. Check it out!
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True, but I honestly can't tell whether it's Brahms' voice. From what I can hear, the voice says "... von Herrn Doktor Selemer (Edison?), by (I'm? Bei?) Herrn Doktor Brahms, Johannes Brahms." It's clearly a german accent, but whether he's talking German or English I don't know.
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I love falling asleep to that
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"I am not Santa Claus, I am Dr. Brahms, Johannes Brahms"
1 month ago 5
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@jampiper when your own stupidity is a complete fool, you are a compound idiot. where are these numbskulls and which of them said brahms was not amazing or more-than-amazing?
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@MuSixramper Complete nonsense! "Doktor" never had a "colloquial meaning", neiter in English nor in German; Brahms held an honorary doctorate (University of Breslau, 1878; Oxford University also wanted to honor him, but he did not care enough to travel to England). That's why he calls himself "doctor".
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@Doug19752533 You are right, no one was in the class of Liszt and Chopin, each incomparable in his own way. It is humanity's loss that they did not live in the age of recording. What I wouldn't give to hear them!!
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@karlakor no pianist is in the class of Liszt or Chopin, they are in a world that is untouchable. that being said one cannot dismiss the pianistic greatness of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, or Rachmanninoff. now you want a great composer who was a mediocre pianist at best, Schubert.
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LOL. Fucking shit.
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i'm gonna put this on my ipod.
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@Parthian100 Perdón, pero es una grabación del año 1889, y además se escucha la voz de uno de los más grandes compositores de la época. No es que el video este "defectuoso" en su calidad, es que la grabación es así. Saludos
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Sounds like Brahms playing on a John Cage prepared piano...
smileykermit 1 year ago 17
the sheer stupidity of someone who thinks that Brahms was a less-than amazing pianist/composer is a complete fool.
jampiper 1 year ago 10