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Academic Festival Overture (tr Patterson)
Johannes Brahms (trans. Merlin Patterson)
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General Info
Year: 1880 / 2012
Duration: c. 10:45
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Merlin Patterson
Cost: Score and Parts - $275.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
The University of Breslau awarded Brahms an honorary degree in 1880 and he reciprocated by writing an overture. Brahms conducted the piece at the University on January 4, 1881. The overture includes student drinking songs and retains the gay atmosphere of college life. Heard are: Wir hatten gebauet em stattliches Haus ("We have built a stately house"), played by the brass choir; Der Landesvater ("The Land Father"), given out by the violins in the orchestral version; Was kommt dort von der Hoh ("What comes from afar") by the woodwinds and strings, and, finally the magnificent Gaudeamus igitur ("Wherefore let us rejoice"), by the whole ensemble.
- Program note by University of Houston Moores School of Music Wind Ensemble
Johannes Brahms accepted an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Breslau, and expressed his gratitude by composing the Academic Festival Overture -from the students’ point of view. The overture is a medley of popular student drinking songs of the day: Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus, Der Landesvater, Fuchsleid, and Gaudeamus igitur, whose lyrics include “Let us rejoice, while we are young, after a pleasant youth, after a troubling old age, the earth will have us.” The emphasis is mostly on the “festival” rather than the “academic” in an overture that brims with color, energy, and an irrepressible sense of fun. Brahms himself described the piece as “a very boisterous potpourri of student songs.”
- Program Note from Spring High School Wind Ensemble concert program, 16 December 2016
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Spring (Texas) High School Wind Ensemble (Tom Bennett, conductor) - 16 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Houston (Tx.) Moores School Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra Combined Concert (David G. Bertman, conductor) – 19 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Allegro (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Watkin) (1876/2003)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1869/2020)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1869)
- St. Anthony Chorale and Variation VI (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1873/1991/2007)
All Wind Works
- Academic Festival Overture (arr. Allen) (1880/2019)
- Academic Festival Overture (arr. Safranek) (1880/1914)
- Academic Festival Overture (tr. Hindsley) (1880/1914/197-?)
- Academic Festival Overture (tr. Patterson) (1880/2012)
- Allegro (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Watkin) (1876/2003)
- Begräbnisgesang (ed. Whitwell) (1858/2014)
- Blessed Are They (arr. Buehlman) (1868/1970)
- Blessed Are They (arr. Kreines) (1868/xxx)
- Blessed Are They Who Mourn (arr. Hanna) (1868)
- A Child's Lullaby (arr. Swearingen) (1868/1996)
- Clarinet Sonata No. 1 (1894)
- Der Jäger (tr. Schuetter) (1859-60/2010)
- Famous Melodies of Brahms (arr. Ployhar) (1970)
- Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1 (arr. Bobrowitz) (1862-76/2019)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 1" (arr. Butts) (1862-76/)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 1" (arr. Johnson) (1862-76/)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 1" (arr. Nelson) (1862-76/1972)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 1" (arr. Wilcox) (1862-76/)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 1" (arr. Williams) (1862-76/2008)
- Four Serious Songs (arr. Langslet) (1897/2017)
- Funeral Hymn (arr. Westover) (1858/2018)
- How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (tr. Williams)
- Hungarian Dance No 5 (arr. Laurendeau) (1869/1905)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Deterling) (1869/2020)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (arr. Longfield) (1869/1996)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (arr. Mahl) (1869/1911)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (arr. Stalter) (1869)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1869)
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 (tr. Thompson) (1869/2018)
- Hungarian Dance No. 6 (arr. Laurendeau) (1869/1905)
- Hungarian Dance No. 6 (arr. Longfield) (1869/2005)
- Hungarian Dance No. 6 (arr. Halle) (1869/1905)
- Hungarian Dance No. 6 (arr. Price) (1869/1940)
- Hungarian Dance No. 7 (arr. Hildreth) (1869/1919)
- Hungarian Dances Nos 3, 5, 11 and 16 (arr. Sheen) (1869/1985)
- Hungarian Dances No 7-8 (arr. Brockton) (1922)
- Hymn of Freedom (tr. Gardner) (1876/1950/1995)
- Nänie (tr. Smith) (1881/2020)
- Oyama (arr. Laurendeau) (1905)
- Piano Quintet in F minor (tr. Stroble) (/2020)
- Prelude and Scherzo (arr. Hubbell) (c. 1857/1981)
- Romanza (tr. Paxton) (c. 1865-1873/2020)
- Serenade No. 2 in A major (ed. Smith) (1860/2012)
- Sleep Gently, My Child (arr. Mahaffey) (1892/2001)
- St. Anthony Chorale and Variation VI (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1873/1991/2007)
- Symphony No. 1 Theme (arr. Feldstein and Clark) (1876/2006)
- Symphony No. 4 (arr. Wirgler)
- Three Chorale Preludes (arr. Boyd; ed. Fennell) (1896/1996)
- Three Hungarian Dances (arr. Singleton) (1858-1868/2009)
- Tragic Overture (tr. Kreines) (1880/)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (1862)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (tr. Kreines; ed. Johnson) (1862)
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn (tr. Duthoit) (1873/1938)
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn (tr. Hindsley) (1873/197-?)
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn (tr. Popkin) (1873/1996)
Resources
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