Symphony

Symphony No. 4

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Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, his final symphony, closes his orchestral cycle with an E‑minor score that treats Romantic expression with Classical discipline. Written in the mid‑1880s and first heard under the composer’s baton in Germany, it has since become a touchstone for American orchestras, including long-standing New York traditions at Carnegie Hall and, today, at David Geffen Hall with the New York Philharmonic. Its last movement, built as a passacaglia, gives the work a deliberately unsentimental architecture. In this season’s programming alongside Mendelssohn at NJPAC, it reads as a study in rigor rather than display.