Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Editor Tohru Takahashi
- Series Great Classics
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- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher De Haske Publications
- Order no. DHP1084542-010
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Description:
The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) wrote his Academic Fesival Overture in the summer of 1880, together with the Tragic Overture. The occasion was the honorary degree which Brahms had received a year before from the University of Breslau. Initially, Brahms had sent a thank-you note, but he was expected to express his gratitude with a composition. The premiere took place on 4 January, 1881 - conducted by the composer himself - in Breslau. For this sparkling work, Brahms used various German student songs as a basis in an inventive way - and a little jestingly. Owing to the accessible development, lyrical warmth, humor, and persuasiveness, the Academic Festival Overture is still a popular concert work. This transcription for concert band, which has been written by Tohru Takahashi, does justice to the original composition.