Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843, Edvard Grieg was Norway's most famous composers. Grieg was one of the late Romantics whose music was infused with the folk tradition of his homeland. Johannes Brahms was German composer and pianist, born in Hamburg in 1833. Of all the major late-Romantic composers, Brahms was the one most attached to the Classical ideal as manifested in the music of Beethoven.