4th Symphony Concert

In 1880, Johannes Brahms told his publisher that he could not deny his "melancholy disposition" the opportunity to write a "tragedy overture" following the "Academic Festival Overture". "One laughs, the other weeps". As the latter does not refer to a specific drama, but to "tragic itself", he called it the "Tragic Overture". In 1883, Brahms then worked in complete silence on his third symphony. No passages from letters, sketches or earlier versio...