He played the French Horn
Brahms was a virtuoso Pianist. Like his father, he also played the horn. In his early years, Brahms found employment as a third horn player, as well as piano. Although the valve horn was around at the time, Brahms favored the timbre of the natural horn.
contrabbasso
contrabbasso
No, but he played the piano.
he played guitar hero
Piano
No, but he played the piano.
Yes, a lot of composers preferred to play viola, including Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and others.
AnswerJohannes Brahms was born in Hamburg. His father, Johann Jakob Brahms, came to Hamburg from Schleswig-Holstein seeking a career as a town musician. He was proficient on several instruments but found employment mostly as a horn player and double bassist. He married Christiane Nissen, a seamstress, who was considerably older than he. They lived in the poor Gngeviertel district of the city, near the docks. Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training. Brahms showed early promise on the piano (his younger brother Fritz also became a pianist) and helped to supplement the rather meager family income by playing the piano in restaurants and theaters, as well as by teaching. It is a long-told tale that Brahms was forced in his early teens to play the piano in bars that doubled as brothels; recently Brahms scholar Kurt Hoffman has suggested that this legend is false. Since Brahms himself clearly originated the story, however, some have questioned Hoffman's theory.
He was, for one, an accomplished pianist.
brahms was pushed by his father to play the piano for money. so he pretty much just played the piano with a lot of talent:]
Permits the Horn to play a tune.....