Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 are orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, completed in 1876 and 1885 respectively. They are large-scale Romantic symphonies characterised by dense orchestration, rigorous motivic development and a synthesis of classical forms with late-Romantic harmony, and they occupy central positions in Brahms's orchestral output, with the First concluding a prolonged period of composition and the Fourth serving as his final symphonic statement.