Academic Festival Overture
| Academic Festival Overture | |
|---|---|
| by Johannes Brahms | |
Title page of score edition 1881 | |
| Native name | Akademische Festouvertüre |
| Key | C minor |
| Opus | Op. 80 |
| Genre | Concert overture |
| Form | Overture |
| Composed | 1880 |
| Dedication | University of Breslau (honorary doctorate) |
| Duration | ~ 10 minutes |
| Movements | Four continuous sections |
| Scoring | Symphony orchestra |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 4 January 1881 |
| Location | University of Breslau (convocation), Breslau |
Academic Festival Overture (German: Akademische Festouvertüre), 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 1880 as a tribute to the University of Breslau, which had notified him that it would award him an honorary doctorate in music.