Amalie Marie Joachim (10 May 1839 – 3 February 1899) was an Austrian-German contralto, working in opera and concert and as voice teacher.

She was the wife of the violinist Joseph Joachim, and a friend of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, with whom she made international tours.

[3] With her marriage, she retired from the stage,[1] but she still performed as a concert singer, often together with her husband and Clara Schumann, a friend.

He wrote one song for their wedding and the baptism of their first son, who was named Johannes after Brahms, and the other decades later with the intention to help the couple's troubled marriage.

[5] Society believed that emotionally intense Lieder was only for men to experience, but Amalie rejected that stereotype while singing Brahms for 36 years.

Amalie was also a voice teacher and, on the recommendation of Johannes Brahms, Marie Fillunger studied under her at the Hochschule in Berlin in 1874.

The only female names that are mentioned in relation to Brahms consistently are Julius Stockhausen and a few others that were rumored to be romantically involved with him.

She died in 1899 in Berlin due to complications from a gallbladder surgery and was buried at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery.