Academic Festival Overture
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Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, by Johannes Brahms, was one of a pair of contrasting concert overtures — the other being the Tragic Overture, Op. 81. Brahms composed the work during the summer of
Title page of score edition 1881
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Ich hab mich ergeben
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"Ich hab mich ergeben", originally titled "Gelübde", is a German patriotic song. The text was written in 1820 by Hans Ferdinand Maßmann.
Academic Festival Overture
…light subject of "Fuchslied" ("Was kommt dort von der Höh"). The inventive treatment includes tunes appropriated from the student ditties: "Fuchslied", "Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus", "Hört, ich sing das Lied der Lieder", and most memorably, the broad, triumphant finale on "Gaudeamus igitur", which succinctly engages Brahms's…
The text in a collection of Lieder. The title is Gelübde