This composition calls for the largest ensemble of any of the composer's orchestral works, including piccolo, contrabassoon, extra brass, triangle, and bass drum.
This composition calls for the largest ensemble of any of the composer's orchestral works, including piccolo, contrabassoon, extra brass, triangle, and bass drum. The various pieces were all joined together in a ten-minute sonata- allegro movement. It consists of "We Have Built a Stately House," "The Sovereign," "What Comes from On High?," and, most famously, "Let Us Therefore Rejoice." All four were popular drinking songs for students at the time. FTP, identify this work composed in response to an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, an 1879 overture by Johannes Brahms.
This composition calls for the largest ensemble of any of the composer's orchestral works, including piccolo, contrabassoon, extra brass, triangle, and bass drum.
{Academic Festival} Overture