Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
This guide follows Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (1880) in one part (sonata form).
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Follow all 13 sections as they play
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.
- Opening
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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