This movement is the shortest of all Brahms' symphonic work.
Many people complained about the inclusion of the electronic tone-generator in a symphonic work.
He is someone the orchestra turns to when there is a symphonic work that includes a piano part.
More important, a purely symphonic work is ambiguous by its nature and can be interpreted to mean anything.
It was Shostakovich's first symphonic work since his denunciation in 1948.
This was reputedly the first time a didgeridoo has featured in a full symphonic work.
Musical purists objected to the use of a serious symphonic work for a ballet.
It was the first performance of a symphonic work by an American composer at the festival.
But conductors want the concerto to be the easy piece on the program, so that they can give the rehearsal time to a symphonic work.
Berlioz's answer was to explode the form and invent a narrative symphonic work.