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Mendelssohn was a decent amateur artist – and in the present Symphony. There is nothing particularly Italian about the Symphony until its final movement. Rather, the work strives more to convey a series of impressions of Italy – Mediterranean sunshine, religious solemnity, monumental art and architecture, and open countryside.
1 Introduction: understanding the symphony. JULIAN HORTON. Contexts. Writing in 1849, Richard Wagner famously announced the symphony’s death at Beethoven’s hands and its transformation into music drama.
6 sie 2023 · Program symphony is an instrumental genre that narrates a story or creates a scene through music. The structure of a program symphony usually consists of four to five movements, guiding the listener through the story. Hector Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique is a fantastic example of a program symphony.
16 lip 2023 · Program Symphony. Any instrumental genre could be composed in such a way as to tell a story or paint a picture in the mind’s eye of the listener. A program symphony is the result of a composer applying the principle of program music to the genre of the symphony.
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia ...
The first part of this essay consists of a brief reconsideration of theoretical aesthetic issues raised by the concept of programme music as expounded by Liszt. his disciples in theories of the 'music of the future', and of their clarification. provided by Carl Dahlhaus's aesthetic investigations.
It was not until 1833, after trips to Paris and London, that Mendelssohn finally penned his first complete version of what is known today as Symphony No. 4, “Italian,” op. 90. It was on a return trip to London that year that the young composer led the London Philharmonic Society premiere.
