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Historical background. The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third ...
Henri Dutilleux 's Symphony No. 1 was written in 1951. A composition from the composer's relatively early period, it is Dutilleux's first purely orchestral composition. It is written in a very classical form (four movements), but its language is rather free. It is orchestrated for 85 instrumentalists.
Misc. Notes Live performance on Jan. 27, 2019 at Northern Virginia Community College's Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center. View performance on Youtube: Mvt.
Performers. Philharmonic Society Orchestra. The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at the peak of his artistic career. [1] It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the four sections use the pipe organ. The composer inscribed it as: Symphonie ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of ...
Composed. 1779, revised 1782 or 1785. Published. 1785 (Artaria) Movements. Four ( Allegro assai, Andante moderato, Menuetto, Finale: Allegro assai) Symphony No. 33 performed by the New York Classical Players in 2021. The Symphony No. 33 in B♭ major, K. 319, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dated on 9 July 1779. [1]
Beethoven Symphony Basics at ESM. Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21 (1800) The Basics. General Information. Composition dates: 1799-1800; sketches as early as 1796. Dedication: Baron Gottfried van Swieten. Initially intended dedicatee was Elector Maximilian Franz of Bonn who died 26 July 1801, before the symphony was published.
