For those who love Brahms.

[Enrique]

Stupendous iconography of the master:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tB2SLLnPZg[/youtube]

I wonder. Among all of the photographs we keep from him there is one which is the oldest. How old could Brahms have been then? According to the clip he seems to have been very young!

[Peter]

Very nicely put together collection of photos from the 'young eagle' who so impressed the Schumanns to the familiar bearded Santa Claus figure of later years. Strange how we always think of him as the later image, but the same is true of Beethoven as well. In the last image of the sequence taken around 1896 shortly before his death, Brahms would have been 63. Here's an image from 1889 (when Brahms was 56) that has been coloured later:

https://neitshade5.files.wordpress.c..._portrait_.jpg

[Megan]

Very handsome man , with that high intelligent forehead, Its just a pity about that horrible grizzly looking beard he grew as he got older, but then I guess it was in vogue then for men to have beards. I wonder what height he was as in some photos he doesn't look very tall.

[Peter]

Very handsome man , with that high intelligent forehead, Its just a pity about that horrible grizzly looking beard he grew as he got older, but then I guess it was in vogue then for men to have beards. I wonder what height he was as in some photos he doesn't look very tall.

Like Beethoven, he was short, around 5'3 I think.

[Enrique]

Bach, according to some sources, was in that range too.

[Enrique]

Very nicely put together collection of photos from the 'young eagle' who so impressed the Schumanns to the familiar bearded Santa Claus figure of later years. Strange how we always think of him as the later image, but the same is true of Beethoven as well. In the last image of the sequence taken around 1896 shortly before his death, Brahms would have been 63. Here's an image from 1889 (when Brahms was 56) that has been coloured later:

https://neitshade5.files.wordpress.c..._portrait_.jpg

But isn't the last image Brahms in his mortuary bed?

[Peter]

But isn't the last image Brahms in his mortuary bed?

Well yes, I wasn't counting that one which was taken April 3rd 1897 when Brahms was 63.

[Enrique]

Oh!