Academic Festival Overture in C minor Op. 80
by Johannes Brahms
String Quartet - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Cello
Viola
Violin
Ensembles
String Quartet
Genres
Romantic Period
Composers
Johannes Brahms
Publishers
Breitkopf and Haertel
Formats
Set of Parts
Score and Parts
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
String Quartet (str quar)

SKU: BR.MR-32069

Composed by Johannes Brahms. Edited by Christian Beyer. Chamber music; stapled. Musica Rara. Overture; Romantic. Score and parts. 44 pages. Duration 10'. Breitkopf and Haertel #MR 32069. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.MR-32069).

ISBN 9790004489499. 9 x 12 inches.

Johannes Brahms wrote the Academic Festival Overture op. 80 in Bad Ischl in the summer of 1880 as a token of thanks for the honorary doctorate that had been bestowed upon him the previous year by the University of Breslau. In keeping with the event, the work contains various folkloric and student songs which Brahms borrowed from the well-known "Commers-Buch fur den deutschen Studenten", a book containing material for the annual students' social gatherings. The overture's first performance was held in Breslau on 4 January 1881 under the direction of the composer. The present arrangement for string quartet by Christian Beyer compliments the already available overtures by Mozart, which Beyer also arranged for this instrumentation.