The cheery and almost pastoral mood of the symphony often invites comparisons with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony,[citation needed] but, perhaps mischievously, Brahms wrote to his publisher on November 22, 1877, that the symphony "is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning."
| Date of composition | 1877 |
| Premiered | 1877, December 30th in Vienna, Austria |
| First published | 1878, N.Simrock in Berlin, Germany |
| Type | Symphony |
| Tonality | D Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 73 |
| Approx. duration | 40 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
Johannes Brahms: Symphonie n°2 en ré majeur, Op. 73 Johannes Brahms: Sinfonia n. 2 in re maggiore, Op. 73 Johannes Brahms: Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-dur, Op. 73 |