Johannes Brahms By emanpca May 7, 1833 Johannes Brahms Born 1840 Brahms Begins Playing Piano 1848 First Public Performance as a Solo Pianist 1853 Brahms Gains Fame from an Article about Him in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1858 Brahms has an Affair with Agathe von Siebold 1859 Brahms Appointed Conductor of a Women's Choir 1863 Brahms Assumed Direction of Singakademie 1872 Brahms Accepts a Position as Conductor of the Gesellschaft de Musikfreunde 1897 Brahms' Last Performance Apr 3, 1897 Johannes Brahms Dies