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Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

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This guide follows Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (1880) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein

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Sonata form0:01–10:19

The opens quietly and mysteriously in C minor, then builds towards the first student song, “Wir hatten gebauet”, which the woodwinds and brass play before the of 1. 2 is the Landesvater song, and the is the comic Fuchs song, led by the bassoons. After a and a change of metre at the of the opening, the starts and later the Landesvater tune . In the the brass play Gaudeamus igitur over running string scales.

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