In 1883, Johannes Brahms spent one of his typically creative summer sojourns in Wiesbaden. During this time, he composed and completed his 3rd Symphony, which he himself once called his "Wiesbadener". In the following decades, a long tradition of cultivating Brahms developed in Wiesbaden.

The German Brahms Society organized the second German Brahms Festival in Wiesbaden in 1912 and the fourth in 1921. At the latter, it was the conductors Furtwängler and Carl Schuricht in particular who rendered outstanding services to the resumption of the tradition of the great Brahms festivals in Wiesbaden.

In order to continue this tradition, the Brahms Society was founded on August 17, 1986 by a group of music-loving citizens of Wiesbaden. In particular, chamber concerts and lectures of a high artistic and academic standard are promoted, with Brahms' piano and chamber music coming to the fore.

In addition, the Brahms Society aims to appeal to as many groups of the population as possible, especially young people, and to contribute to the promotion of young musicians by giving young musicians and talented pupils the opportunity to perform in public. In this way, it contributes to the musical education of young people.

Not least for this purpose, the society has held a series of master classes on various instruments in Walluf in the Rheingau with internationally renowned artists such as Hans Peter and Volker Stenzl, Zachar Bron, Antonio Meneses and France Clidat.

In 1991, the society was renamed the "Brahms-Gesellschaft Wiesbaden-Rheingau". The older documents of the Brahms Society are kept in the Wiesbaden City Archives as a deposit.