Brahms – Symphony No. 3 🎼 | Classical Music | Full Performance

Brahms wrote his Third Symphony in the summer of 1883 while vacationing in the German spa town of Wiesbaden. The then 50-year-old composer celebrated an important year of his life as he labelled it as an “important milestone on the road to death.” It was a time of taking stock, and introspection which in turn became the summit of Brahms’s orchestral output. On 2 December 1883, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the masterpiece under the direction of Hans Richter, who also acclaimed it as Brahms’s Eroica. It is the shortest of Brahms’s four symphonies but often considered the best of the set.