"I'm Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) I was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, I spent much of his professional life in Vienna. I sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow."