 The premiere of the first part took place on 7 April 1871 on the occasion of the Good Friday concert "In Memory of those who fell in Battle" in the cathedral of Bremen.The newspaper "Weser-Zeitung" wrote that the first part of the "Triumphlied" was a "real paean", "worthy of a great nation".The first performance of the complete work took place on 5 June 1872 in Karlsruhe.