Johannes Brahms tinkered with his symphonic firstfruits for more than 20 years, that's how depressing the legacy of , and on his shoulders. The premiere on November 4, 1876 in Karlsruhe was actually more of a tryout. On December 27 of that year, the symphony was welcomed in Vienna. Despite the success of an entire orchestra season, Brahms decided to revise the slow movement even then before
… proceeding to publish the score. Brahms 'Third Symphony (1883) opens with the theme FAF, referring to Brahms' motto 'Frei aber Froh' (free, but happy). The symphony also ends with this theme, surrounded by a halo of swaying strings. Conductor Edward Gardner conducts these symphonies energetically and energetically, as if he had Weingartner as an example (the only Brahms conductor on record that Brahms still knew) than Furtwängler.more
