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5 sty 2015 · Jonathan Kregor. Chapter. Get access. Summary. In February 1848, the celebrated pianist Franz Liszt assumed his duties full time as Kapellmeister at Weimar, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
6 sie 2023 · A program symphony stands out in the realm of classical music due to several defining characteristics: Narrative structure: Unlike traditional symphonies, a program symphony tells a specific story or depicts a sequence of events through music.
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 ...
1. Introduction: understanding the symphony. Part I. Historical overview of the genre. Part II. Studies in symphonic analysis. Part III. Performance, reception and genre. 13. The symphony and the classical orchestra. 14. Beethoven’s shadow: the nineteenth century. 15. The symphony as programme music. 16.
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.
In reviewing Carl Maria von Weber’s Piano Concerto in F minor, symphonies by Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, and Mahler, and pieces by Webern and Berg, Floros concludes, “a program offers first and foremost a creative impulse for the composer” (p. 218).
