# Brahms-Museum

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Brahms-Museum stands in Hamburg’s Composers Quarter, on Peterstraße, close to Johannes Brahms’s birthplace. The rooms occupy two floors of a historic building. Founded in 1971, the collection follows Brahms’s first three decades in Hamburg, where musical training shaped his early career. A table piano from around 1860 connects that story with the lessons he gave.

Personal belongings, artworks, busts, and photographs fill out the composer’s Hamburg story across the rooms. A library holds books, recordings, and musical material. The collection includes the complete Henle edition of Brahms’s works, audio recordings, and reproductions of notation, letters, and concert programmes. The nearby Lichtwark-Saal hosts temporary Brahms exhibitions, lectures, and concerts. Walking tours through Hamburg trace historical places from his life, while a marble bust by Viennese artist Ilse Conrat provides a striking detail.

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