Warm, romantic melodies almost line up, and it all culminates in a magnificent final movement. Brahms' unique melodic abilities are not denied in this his 1st symphony, but he also had to spend more than 20 years composing it. As a young man, he is heralded as Beethoven's heir, and this hampers him so much that he is unable to write major symphonies for many years. When his 1st Symphony was finally premiered, the conductor Hans von Bülow stated that "it was like the premiere of Beethoven's 10th." – and that statement was not praise, but a subtle hint that the work was a copy of Beethoven's. Posterity, however, has no doubt that the symphony is unmistakably Brahms.

Steingrímur Rohloff

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