Symphonies 2 & 5
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Title:
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Symphonies 2 & 5 |
Otros títulos:
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Sinfonías 2 y 5 |
Intérprete/ Colaborador:
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Kurt Atterberg; Ari Rasilainen; Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt |
Código CDU:
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Att.03 |
Forma Musical:
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Symphonies |
Abstract:
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Atterberg's self-understanding as a composer is re¬flected already in his early oeuvre. During the first decade of his valid compositional productivity, be¬tween 1908 and 1918, he wrote not only two string quartets and a violin concerto but also no fewer than four symphonies. Despite his fundamentally tradi¬tional orientation, he did not succumb to the tempta¬tion of merely appropriating forms and methods as empty frameworks but reflected on then in his work. This fact is demonstrated very persuasively by the his-tory of composition of the Symphony No. 2 in F major op. 6. Atterberg began the sketd in the autumn of 1911. The first movement, no in l« brass passages and pressing on ahead, art move ment combining the slow movement anscherzo were the first two movements to be completby him The symphony was performed for the first 13 in this version in Gbteborg in December 12, 191 with the composer as the conductor.
Atterberg's contemporaries may haveriticized the symphony as incomplete, but ... |
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