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1833 - Born in Hamburg on the 7th of May.
1853 - He accepted an engagement as accompanist to the Hungarian violinist, Remenyi, for a concert tour.
- In December, he gave a concert at Leipzig, as a result of which the firms of Breitkopf & Haertel and of Senff undertook to publish his compositions.
1854 - He was given the post of choir-director and music-master to the prince of Lippe-Detmold, but he resigned it after a few years, going first to Hamburg, and then to Zürich, where he enjoyed the friendship and artistic counsel of Theodor Kirchner.
1963 - He was appointed director of the Singakademie in 1863, were the most important external events of Brahms's life, but again he gave up the conductorship after a few months of valuable work, and for about three years had no fixed place of abode.
1867-1872 - He returned to Vienna.
1874-1878 - His longest absence from the Austrian capital, when he lived near Heidelberg.
- He conducted the concerts of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde", but after the later date he occupied no official position of any kind.
1881 - He refused to come to England to take the honorary degree of Mus.D. offered by the university of Cambridge; the university of Breslau made him Ph.D.
1886 - He was created a knight of the Prussian order Pour le mérite.
1889 - He was presented with the freedom of his native city.
1897 - He died in Vienna on the 3rd of April.
1853 - He accepted an engagement as accompanist to the Hungarian violinist, Remenyi, for a concert tour.
- In December, he gave a concert at Leipzig, as a result of which the firms of Breitkopf & Haertel and of Senff undertook to publish his compositions.
1854 - He was given the post of choir-director and music-master to the prince of Lippe-Detmold, but he resigned it after a few years, going first to Hamburg, and then to Zürich, where he enjoyed the friendship and artistic counsel of Theodor Kirchner.
1963 - He was appointed director of the Singakademie in 1863, were the most important external events of Brahms's life, but again he gave up the conductorship after a few months of valuable work, and for about three years had no fixed place of abode.
1867-1872 - He returned to Vienna.
1874-1878 - His longest absence from the Austrian capital, when he lived near Heidelberg.
- He conducted the concerts of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde", but after the later date he occupied no official position of any kind.
1881 - He refused to come to England to take the honorary degree of Mus.D. offered by the university of Cambridge; the university of Breslau made him Ph.D.
1886 - He was created a knight of the Prussian order Pour le mérite.
1889 - He was presented with the freedom of his native city.
1897 - He died in Vienna on the 3rd of April.
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