With regard to the autographed orchestral parts of my "Symphonic Poems," I should be glad if they could be out by the end of July.
My friendly greetings to Stein--and present my warm thanks to the courageous orchestra, which has not been scandalised by the "Symphonic Poems"!
Subsequently he lived in Vienna for some length of time, and got up some concerts there with the view of having some Symphonic Poems performed which he himself conducted--but he was unable to get a proper start.
I have heard the highest praises of the capability of Mr. Thomas, whom I have to thank particularly for the interest he takes in my Symphonic Poems.
Perhaps the most characteristic of the four symphonic poems is the well-known "Danse Macabre.
Pasdeloup began his work by familiarising the Parisians with the symphonic works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Upon this legend Saint-Saens has constructed a symphonic piece of great descriptive power.
A single clap of thunder will produce more effect than all the symphonic thunderstorms that have ever been composed, with all due deference to Beethoven and Rossini.
His four symphonic poems illustrate the dual nature of his talent as much as any of his productions.
Christophe had written a symphonic fragment for the ceremony at the mairie, but at the last moment he gave up the idea when he realized what a civil marriage is: he thought such ceremonies absurd.
And, the proposal reminding him of the strange transmutation which had taken place in his symphonic poem, David, he went so far as to tell the story of the performance organized by Deputy Roussin to introduce his mistress to the public.
The program included also a symphonic rhapsody on cow-boy melodies.
The vocal parts are neither recitative nor true song; the orchestral tide is developed in much the same symphonic style as in Tannhäuser.
I doubt whether the players quite knew, as our players know now, what they were doing; for here was something quite alien from the patchwork of four-bar measures which constituted the ordinary symphonic novelty at that time.
The old themes are welded to or interwoven with new material, and a perfect symphonic whole results, one that can be listened to with delight without stage accessories.
This is very different from deliberately writing a symphonic poem--deliberately sitting down in cold blood and setting to work to illustrate a story.
The orchestral part is symphonic throughout, with a few dramatic pauses.
The Wagnerians object to the set form of his works, and the reactionaries condemn the prominence which he often gives to the declamatory and symphonic portions of his score.
In certain scenes his treatment of guiding themes reaches an almost symphonic level, and the opera is throughout a singularly favourable specimen of his earlier manner.
This is not the place to dilate upon Strauss's achievements as a symphonic writer, which are sufficiently well known to the world at large.
In this work, which was written at the age of eighteen, the composer showed a mastery of the symphonic form which many of his detractors might have envied.
He had little patience with the conventions of the stage, and his attempts to blend the dramatic and symphonic elements, as in 'Les Troyens,' can scarcely be termed a success.
Along with the Dante symphony we had the Andante (Gretchen) from the Faust symphony, the symphonic poem Fest Kloenge, a charming work which is never played now, and still other works.
Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne is, perhaps, the best of the famous symphonic poems.
If we regret that the author lingered too long in his imitation of the Pifferari of the Roman campagna, on the other hand, we are delighted by the symphonic interlude Les Bergers à la Crèche.
Their symphonic form is the only one worth considering.
This overture, although the Mercure de France treats it as a "beautiful symphonic piece which serves as a good introduction to the work," in reality does not resemble the style of the rest at all.
Until the misfortunes and calamities of that terrible year the French symphonicschool had been repressed and stifled between the Société des Concerts and the Concerts Populaires.
It requires, in fact, that the singers should have a strong symphonic sense, should feel themselves all parts of a continuous vocal ensemble which must be kept going not by the conductor but by their own co-operative efforts.
Compared with that in the other Verdi operas, the treatment of the orchestra is so complex as to make it almost symphonic in character.
It will be the first theme in my new symphonic poem, Childe Roland.
He did, and named his prescription a Symphonic Poem or, rather, Poéme Symphonique, which is not quite the same thing.
His symphonies, hissymphonic poems, are a superb condensation of all that Beethoven knew and Wagner felt.
Think of utilizing that magnificent and formidable engine, the Beethoven symphonic method, to accompany a tinsel tale of garbled Norse mythology with all sorts of modern affectations and morbidities introduced!
The Symphonic Variations are the greatest of all, greater than the Concerto or the Fantasie in C.
He had no symphonic talent, he substituted Italian tunes for dignified themes, and when the development section came he plastered on more sentimental melodies.
The six symphonies are caricatures of the symphonic form.
Beethoven's principal title to fame is in his superlative place as a symphonic composer.
Beethoven is asserted to have founded the new musical school, when he admitted, by his recourse to the vocal cantata in the greatest of his symphonic works, that he no longer recognized absolute music as sufficient unto itself.
I lis great symphonic works belong to a later period, when his whole nature had mellowed and ripened without losing its imaginative sweep and brilliancy.
The greatest work of this period was the "Hymn of Praise," a symphonic cantata for the Leipsic anniversary of the invention of printing, regarded by many as his finest composition.
More important still was his first really large-scale work, Aus Italien, to which he gave the subtitle Symphonic Fantasy for large Orchestra.
But apparently Strauss had had his fill of the Elektra tragedy at this stage and had no stomach for more of this sort of thing, whether symphonic or operatic.
To this period belongs a composition which has survived and at intervals turns up on our symphonic programs--the curious Burleske for piano and orchestra.
The consequence was Intermezzo, a domestic comedy in one act withsymphonic interludes.
Strauss's symphonic excursion in the Alps was succeeded by a return to opera.
He had symphonic concerts as well as operas to occupy him.
Illustration: A page from the original score of "Elektra"] More than a decade was to elapse before Strauss was to concern himself again with problems of symphonic music.
I was specially drawn to the former by his melodic and harmonic inspiration, which then seemed to me full of freshness; to the latter by his feeling for symphonic form; and to both by their scholarly workmanship.
This famous organization wished to give them a special interest by presenting symphonic works specially written for the occasion by contemporary composers.
By so doing he might freshen all those symphonic programs which are built on one pattern and are all becoming unbearably moldy.
The idea of writing a symphonic work of some length had been present in my mind for a long time, and I therefore gladly accepted a proposal so thoroughly in accord with my wishes.
It was not till later, at the concerts of Siloti and those of Koussevitzky, that our public had a chance to hear their symphonic productions.
I was to conduct, for first time in public, selections from L'Oiseau de Feu in the form of a symphonic suite, and the program included Carnaval and Soleil de Minuit conducted by Ernest Ansermet.
There were also great symphonicconcerts given by two important societies--the Imperial Musical Society and the Russian Symphony Concerts--founded by Mitrophan Belaieff, that great patron and publisher of music.
This gave me a chance to make a close study of the score with the musicians recruited from the great symphonic orchestras of Paris, whom I knew well, as I had frequently worked with them.
In the course of the last eight years most of my symphonic and stage compositions have frequently played at Buenos Aires, and, thanks to Ansermet's conducting, the public has been able to get a good idea of them.
To recall La Belle au Bois Dormant, Casse Noisette, Le Lac des Cygnes, Pique Dame, and many pieces of hissymphonic work is enough to show the extent of his fondness for the fantastic.
At the same time he taught me the compass and the registers of the different instruments used in contemporary symphonic orchestras, and the first elements of the art of orchestration.
To copyright openness and sign it is as absurd, or sublime, as delivering beautiful empty bars of music to serve as a score for symphonic interpretation or a multimedia event.
Each evening during a ten-week summer season, a symphonic drama portraying the history of the Texas Panhandle is presented in the amphitheatre.
Located on the canyon floor, Pioneer Amphitheatre is a modern outdoor theatre where symphonic dramas are presented each summer.
Tosca does not offer us declamation as a key to symphonic music nor symphonic music as a key to declamation.
Before the third act comes a characteristic orchestral interlude, in which the Wagnerian plan of continuing the story by means of a symphonic tone poem is employed with individuality by Puccini.
The symphonicnature of the intermezzi which connect the scenes, more particularly the wild dance of the spirit forms, distinctly points to the arrival of a great composer.
In pure orchestration, Puccini in Tosca shows an advance on La Boheme, in the general symphonicfulness and in the more extended use of representative themes.
His successors in the composition of symphonic music have followed his lead, some adhering to the classical form and others departing from it, according to the bent of their genius.
Franz Liszt was the inventor of the symphonic poem, and is included in this catalogue chiefly for that reason.
This was a distinct innovation in symphonic writing, and the artistic beauty and eloquence of the work prove that the symphony as a form was capable of the most free expressiveness.
His symphonies are really symphonic poems in several detached movements and are all original in form.
His study of Nietzsche's philosophy appears not only in his "Zarathustra," but in nearly all his "Symphonic Poems.
The reception of the great "Symphonic Pathetique" in this country disposes of the former alternative.
Like Wagner, he perceived that after Beethoven symphonic music could do no more on the old lines, but that music might learn to characterise much more sharply than it had ever done before.
Eroica"--represents not merely a contribution of unparalleled brilliancy to the symphonic music of the period, but an immense enlargement of its previously known possibilities.
Don Juan," though much less eccentric than most of the other "Symphonic Poems" by Richard Strauss, is a typical example of his overwhelmingly rich and effective orchestration.
At a later period Richard Strauss became a disciple of the Wagner-Liszt school and adopted the Symphonic Poem as his principal medium of expression.
The poetic scheme forming the basis of Richard Strauss's Symphonic Poem is remarkably simple.
The performances in London are to be numbered by dozens, and whenever genuine orchestral concerts are given in this country the swan-song of the late Russian master has probably been heard more often than any other symphonic work.
The former bears the same relation to the latter that a Beethoven symphonic movement bears to a ballet by Delibes.
The extraordinary imprevu of his formal developments and his unique manner of stating parallels recall the symphonic works of Beethoven.
They belong in the realm of modern music quite as much as Wagner's music-dramas and Liszt's symphonic poems.
In the same spirit Liszt transformed the symphony into the symphonic poem, which is continuous and has a leading motive uniting all its parts.
Beethoven encouraged it by his "Pastoral Symphony," and the French Berlioz did some very remarkable things in this line in his dramatic symphonies; but it remained for Liszt to hit the nail on the head in his symphonic poems.
When "Lancelot and Elaine" was published three years later it bore the sub-title: "Second Symphonic Poem.
Most of the material which was to form the symphonic poem went ultimately to the making of the scherzo of the second piano concerto, composed during the following year.
I believe that he was planning an orchestral setting of this scene; and that, had he lived, we should have had from him a symphonic poem, "Cuchullin.
But MacDowell afterward changed his mind concerning this designation, and preferred to entitle the work: "First Symphonic Poem (a.
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