Rustic_Wedding_Symphony
Rustic Wedding Symphony
Symphony by Karl Goldmark
Rustic Wedding Symphony, Op. 26 (Ländliche Hochzeit) is a symphony in E-flat major by Karl Goldmark, written in 1875,[1] a year before his renowned Violin Concerto No. 1. The symphony was premiered in Vienna on 5 March 1876, conducted by Hans Richter.[2] Johannes Brahms, who was a frequent walking companion of Goldmark's, and whose own Symphony No. 1 was not premiered until November 1876, told him "That is the best thing you have done; clear-cut and faultless, it sprang into being a finished thing, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter".[3] Its first American performance was at a New York Philharmonic Society concert, conducted by Theodore Thomas on 13 January 1877.[3]