Hymn of Freedom

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (trans. Maurice Gardner)

Subtitle: Themes from Brahms' Symphony No. 1

General Info

Year: 1876 / 1950 / 1995
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Plymouth Music Co. Inc.
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Out of print.

For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.

Instrumentation

Condensed Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Crash Cymbals
• Snare Drum

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, is a symphony written by Johannes Brahms. Brahms spent at least fourteen years completing this work, whose sketches date from 1854. Brahms himself declared that the symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took 21 years, from 1855 to 1876. The premiere of this symphony, conducted by the composer's friend Felix Otto Dessoff, occurred on 4 November 1876, in Karlsruhe, then in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

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State Ratings

• Arkansas: I
• West Virginia: III

Performances

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• Peninsula Symphonic Band (Palo Alto, Calif.) (Jason R. Palmer, conductor) – 21 November 2021
• Catholic Private Weidao Senior High School Wind Music (Taichung, Taiwan) – 24 May 2002

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

• Brahms, J.; Gardner, M. (1995). Hymn of Freedom : Themes from Brahms Symphony No. 1 [score]. Staff Music Publishing Co.: Great Neck, N.Y.
• Symphony No. 1 (Brahms). Wikipedia Accessed 21 November 2021