Academic Festival Overture | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | Arrangement: Siegmund Goldhammer

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In 1879, the University of Breslau followed the example of Cambridge and bestowed upon Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) the honorary doctorate, naming him "the now first master of the stricter musical art in Germany" (artis musicae severioris in Germania nunc princeps). Brahms expressed his gratitude to the dignitaries of the philosophical faculty in Breslau with his "Academic Festival Overture" op. 80. Almost simultaneously, his "Tragic Overture" op. 81 was created. He himself wrote about both works: "One laughs, the other weeps." The humorous "Academic Festival Overture" provoked irritated head-shaking among all musical philistines who only wanted to attribute serious tones to Brahms. The rich thematic material of the overture consists of a series of well-known student songs, which are artfully processed into a contrapuntal whole. With melodies like "We had built a stately house," "Listen, I sing the song of songs," "What comes there from the hill?" and the anthem of all student songs "Gaudeamus igitur!," Brahms tells a story of student life with overflowing joy, causing even the "Old Gentlemen" to burst out laughing.
Student songs that Brahms used in this work:
1. Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus [1:53]
2. Hört, ich sing das Lied der Lieder [3:45]
3. Was kommt dort von der Höh' [4:43]
4. Gaudeamus igitur [4:43]
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