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	Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven, Opus 60 was written in 1806.
		This is especially the case with Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major, as it contrasts heavily with heroic Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major and tragic Symphony No. 5 in C Minor.
		Von Oppersdorf listened to Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, and liked it so much that he offered a great amount of money for Beethoven to compose a new symphony for him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Beethoven) (671 words)

	Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 4 in E minor by Johannes Brahms is the last of his symphonies.
		Brahms began working on the piece in 1884, just a year after completing his Symphony No. 3, and completed it in 1885.
		It is written for an orchestra consisting of two flutes (one doubling on piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, a double bassoon, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, triangle, and strings (violins, violas, cellos and double basses).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms) (288 words)

	8.554128 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, "Romantic" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though he was to complete eight numbered symphonies (and two that he withheld), and a considerable amount of choral and sacred music, but was to write rather less music than his seventy-two years would justify.
		The Fourth Symphony was first completed in 1874, but the composer later viewed it as a first draft, and extensively revised it in 1880, with further minor modifications in 1886.
		But unlike many of his symphonies, the revisions in the score that was handed down we know to be the composer's own, and not the meddling work of others.
	www.naxos.com /intro/i554128.htm (868 words)

	Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4
		The symphony was definitely a response to something, but not in the sense of a chastised schoolboy mending his ways — rather as a great artist reacting to the cruelty and insanity of the times.
		Generally accepted as the greatest of the symphony’s movements, the Largo was widely understood as a lament for the Soviet Army marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who fell victim to the Stalinist purges in 1937, at the very time Shostakovich was working on his symphony.
		The official interpretation of Fifth Symphony was propounded by the novelist Alexey Tolstoy, who, even though he was a count (and a relative of Lev Tolstoy) was loyal to the Soviet regime.
	www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/030603.html (3471 words)

	classical music - andante - gustav mahler
		Whereas, in the case of his earlier symphonies, Mahler had provided his listeners with explanatory introductions or at least given titles to their individual movements, he decided on this occasion that the music of the Fourth Symphony can and must be self-sufficient.
		Of course, it must be admitted that a paradox lay at the heart of the Fourth Symphony, the contrast between the reassuring surface and the complexity of the compositional technique, was bound to be disconcerting.
		For its time, the Fourth Symphony was an avant-garde work, a form of self-discovery for the composer himself, bringing with it as it did an entirely unexpected evolution in his style that led to greater rigour and concentration.
	www.andante.com /profiles/Mahler/symph4.cfm (2411 words)

	Belle Epoque - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the beautiful First Symphony and the two enormous works of the Second and Third Symphony where the exhaustive climax is formed by the sixth movement of the Third, I get the impression that Mahler himself has reached a sort of final point.
		On the formal level, the Fourth Symphony with its classical four movements is rather traditional, aside from the soprano solo in the last movement and the partly unusual selection of keys.
		Corresponding to the character and the volume of the Fourth Symphony, the number of orchestra members is drastically reduced contrary to Mahler's usual preferences; especially the wind players are distinctly less, trombones and tubes does not exist at all.
	www.labellepoque.de /mahler/sinf04_e.htm (535 words)

	Johannes Brahms - Symphony 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even once he felt up to the challenge of symphonies, he was not prolific in the field.
		The last of his symphonies was begun in the summer of 1884 while the composer was vacationing in the Styrian town of Mürzzuschlag.
		The Fourth Symphony was included on a concert given May 7, 1897: Brahms' sixty-fourth birthday.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/brahms_sym4.html (327 words)

	symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fourth Symphony was begun in May 1877, two months before the composer´s disastrous and short-lived marriage.
		He and his wife parted after a few months, but at the same time another woman entered his life, though no romantic attachment was involved: the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck settled an annuity on him that freed him from financial worries.
		It was she to whom the Symphony was dedicated and to whom the composer confided his programme.
	www.tchaikovsky.host.sk /work/sym4.htm (407 words)

	flairmedia - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No other reading comes near to that of Mr.Jarvi's I have had this for a couple of years and was also fortunate to hear it live in London at the Albert Hall by the the Mevrinsky orchestra under Gergiev.
		But to simply focus on the one symphony in a recording that is respectable, then this CD with Neeme Jarvi conducting the Scottish National Orchestra is probably as sound as they come.
		Schostakowitsch: Symphonie No. 10 in E Minor, Op.
	www.flairmedia.net /store/item-B000000AHT.shtml (394 words)

	Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
		-->Schumann composed this Symphony in D minor in September 1841 and it was introduced as as his Symphony No. 2 on December 6 of that year, when Ferdinand David conducted it in Leipzig.
		As his three other symphonies had all seen publication by then, this became No. 4, and the opus number 120 was appended to the score after Schumannâs death.
		As this was the second full-fledged symphony he completed, it was reasonably enough billed as âSymphony No. 2â when it was given its premiere; as already noted, however, the score was withheld from publication until Schumann revised and reorchestrated it, ten years later.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2389 (871 words)

	Symphony No. 4
		Rich in the impressive tone, melodic mastery, and majestic intensity that characterize Tchaikovsky’s mature works, this splendid symphony from the supreme melodic genius of 19th-century Russian music has remained one of most popular works in the repertoire since its 1877 debut.
		The charm and vitality of the popular "Italian" symphony are undimmed since its 1833 debut.
		The composer’s final symphony is a masterwork of lush orchestration and deep melancholy.
	store.doverpublications.com /0486404218.html (186 words)

	National Review: Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat, Symphony No. 4 in D Minor. - Ricardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Symphony No. 1 in B flat and Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, tastefully recorded by Ricardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (London 425 608-2), are faithful to Schumann's expression-rhythmic, romantic without sentimentality, brimming over with attractive themes, and showing us what the music of the time was, before Wagner sat on it.
		There are hints in No. 4 of the depression which led to his suicide attempt and his subsequent tragic mental breakdown, but both are full of a Germanic musical spring.
		An "eaglet," he called him, and wrote of his music as "bright and spontaneous," full of "ease and grace," with "no harsh colors, no forced effects." Schumann realized, as well, that Brahms was achieving what he himself had failed at-an integration of the most valuable elements in the classical tradition with a surging romanticism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v3/ai_10330583 (505 words)

	John Harbison - Symphony No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In celebration of the Centennial of the Seattle Symphony, this symphony was commissioned by Constance Albrecht to honor her husband, Richard R. Albrecht.
		Symphony No. 4 was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony with funds from Richard and Constance Albrecht; it is a pleasure to celebrate their faith in the future of concert music.
		Its early completion, far ahead now of the rest of the piece, affected the character of the whole symphony, especially the last movement, whose ritual formality embraces, and perhaps chokes off, the frantic dance and march which attempt to modify its character.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/harbison_symphony_4.html (487 words)

	Szymanowski, Symphony Concertante (No. 4)
		Nowhere is this clearer than In his 1952 Symphonie Concertante (Symphony No. 4) for piano and orchestra.
		If Szymanowski had been a self-expressive artist like Mahler (a composer he accused of "inner misunderstanding"), we might have expected a symphony written in such a situation to be scarred with self-pity.
		Not that there's anything immediately folkloric in the Symphonie Concertante: there are no quotations of actual folk tunes, and its nationalism has little in common with the exoticism practiced by such composers as Rimsky-Korsakov, much less with the glorification of the people increasingly demanded of his contemporaries in the Soviet Union.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/96_97season/3rd_concert/symphonie_concertante.cfm (497 words)

	Charles Ives's Symphony No. 4
		Imitations of train sounds alternate with pilgrims' hymns, until the man sees from a distance the pilgrims reaching their goal and discovers to his horror that he is traveling to Hell.
		He wakes from his dream to the earthly sounds of a marching band, grateful to have learned in time that there are no easy answers to the questions posed in the first movement.
		This symbolizes the fulfillment of the yearning, expressed from the beginning of the symphony, to be nearer to God.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/2002_03season/2002_11_17/ives.cfm (563 words)

	Notes on Symphony no. 4 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tchaikovsky completed his fourth symphony at the end of a particularly harrowing episode in his personal life.
		A few weeks later he sent for the draft, and in December had sufficiently recovered to return to wrok on it; a month later, the instrumentation was completed.
		Nadezhda von Meck had earned Tchaikovsky's trust with her unfailing support throughout the previous year, and it was to her that he referred in the symphony's dedication "to my best friend." Pressed by her for a personal insight into its meaning, Tchaikovsky struggled to articulate his intentions.
	loudounsymphony.org /notes/tchaikovsky-4 (311 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Shostakovich: Symphony no 4 / Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With four of six planned symphonies under his belt, the verdict is not quite in.
		His recording of Symphony No. 7 was widely considered a minor effort, but his recording of Nos.
		If this most Mahlerian of Shostakovich's symphonies (just listen to the opening of the 2nd movement to hear Mahler with a Russian accent) is not as difficult to grasp as the disjointed structure and independent, parallel elements would suggest, it is because of its wild, riveting, sometimes abrasively glorious assault on our senses.
	www.epinions.com /content_168892468868 (846 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - Symphony No.4; (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Perhaps because of his rather misleading reputation as a writer of programme symphonies, Raff's Symphony No.4 in g op.167 tends to be overlooked in his canon.
		Coming hard on the heels of the successes of the "Forest" Symphony No.3 and the Opera "Dame Kobold", the g minor symphony was taken up quickly by orchestras and had its premiere on 8 February 1872 in a concert at the Royal Hoftheatre in Wiesbaden under Wilhelm Jahn.
		Here the symphony's opening theme is briefly reprised over tremulous strings before being dismissed as the festivities re-assert themselves in a rousing close.
	www.raff.org /symph4.htm (867 words)

	Program Notes
		The American premiere was conducted by Walter Damrosch with the New York Symphony on December 11, 1886.
		The symphony is scored for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, triangle, and strings.
		Thus the symphony drives to its conclusion, forward-thrusting yet measured, always new in detail yet organically unified, stern, noble, and with that sense of inevitability that marks the greatest music.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmnote.asp?nodeid=3067&callid=3090 (1532 words)

	Roussel: Symphony No. 4, opus 53 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fourth Symphony is unusual in the weight given to the slow second movement, which is two-and-a-half minutes longer than the last two movements combined.
		At the premiere performance of the Fourth Symphony, the audience demanded that the scherzo be repeated — which is understandable, because it is the most immediately appealing movement.
		In this symphony the points of argument are as clearly ordered and defined as any found in a Beethoven symphony.
	www.opus1.com /~ehoornaert/ROUSSEL/53_sym4.htm (554 words)

	Music : Sym 4 (W/Bonus Cd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lenny's Fourth in the second set, however, is seriously marred by the use of a boy soprano who sounds jarringly wrong and...
		This is about Benjamin Zander's new recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony on Telarc but there are some preliminaries to put it in context.
		Critics tend to dismiss as uncommitted or lacking in excitement the interpretation of the Mahler Fourth by means of which I first grew familiar with the piece - Bernard Haitink's, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, on a Philips LP from the late 1960s.
	www.wennichzum.com /ca/B00005NSVK/Mahler_Symphony_No._4.html (655 words)

	Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44 / Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 47 (Original 1930 Version) - Neeme ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op.
		Symphony 3 is probably the best example of Prokofiev's immense genius in fusing these disparate elements.
		Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op.
	www.gamerstop.com /B000000ADC (408 words)

	Prokofiev's Symphony No.4
		So, he began work in earnest in the fall of 1929 on his Symphony No. 4, and decided to fashion it after his quite successful ballet, The Prodigal Son, perhaps because he had no appetite to write such a work from scratch with another deadline hanging overhead.
		In short, the symphony often sounds as if it had been quickly pieced together to meet the commission deadline, though it was in fact finished in plenty of time.
		And listen to his sensitive phrasing of either symphony's slow movement: the lyricism breathes and inner details emerge to heighten the dramatic flow.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/brambles/48/prodoc6c.html (786 words)

	Programme note: Symphony 4, by Philip Goddard
		This symphony is composed from some of the music that haunted and pursued me each year as I walked alone over mountains and remote moor.
		The symphony is very unusual in that it has a (normally quiet) drone, which is present, on and off, for most of the work; even when it is not sounding explicitly it is usually still implicit in the music, or occasionally it may be in a higher or lower octave than normal.
		This brings the body of the symphony to an emphatic close, leaving us with a fading image of that transcendent vision, which subsides into the echoes of the moor and those cuckoos in the glens, which in turn fade away into the distance.
	www.philipgoddard.com /music/sym4.htm (1474 words)

	MobileGamer.biz :: Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No doubt all conductors meticulously study the scores that they conduct.
		As Zander reminds us, Mahler wrote Symphony No. 4 backwards, beginning with the fourth-movement setting of the "Wunderhorn" song "Das Himmlische Leben," originally intended as the seventh movement of the colossal Third Symphony.
		The "Kleine Appell" - the trumpet-call, buried in a tutti, which foreshadows the Fifth Symphony - is understated; Zander reins in its foreshadowing portentousness.
	www.mobilegamer.biz /store/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00005NSVK (1415 words)

	Great Performances . Keeping Score: MTT on Music \| Tchaikovsky No. 4 in Performance: The San Francisco Symphony and ...
		In addition, he introduces individual members of the San Francisco Symphony, who explain the challenges and joys of the music Tchaikovsky penned for their instruments -- including the violin, oboe, bassoon, piccolo, bass, and timpani.
		In TCHAIKOVSKY NO. 4 IN PERFORMANCE, the companion program to the documentary, conductor Thomas ascends the podium to lead the San Francisco Symphony in a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's Fourth at Davies Symphony Hall.
		Immerse yourself in the rich world of symphonic music as you take an in-depth journey through Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and discover more about the life and times of the composer in Keeping Score: MTT on Music, a unique interactive presentation that incorporates photos, video from both programs, music, and other activities.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/tchaikovsky4 (332 words)

	Symphony No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was looking at the sketches for the symphony earlier today while proofreading the score, and there are even comments like 'disguise this recap as a transition' or 'interchange this material so that it sounds like what came before', although it's in fact something else.
		This symphony is different from its predecessors in that it is very much composed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - as opposed to a full-strength symphony orchestra - in mind.
		I chose to call it a symphony (and not a chamber symphony or sinfonietta) because the musical thought and process are, I hope, no less 'symphonic' than in my other symphonies: indeed, I trust they are more concentrated and leaner, the art concealing the art but no less intense.
	www.maxopus.com /works/symph_4.htm (2946 words)

	Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leonard Bernstein's earlier recording of this symphony for Sony was, and remains, one of the best.
		I've already listened to both the Sony recording and the DG recording of Bernstein conducting Mahler's fourth, which is considered to be the most charming and the brightest of the symphonies.
		Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Mehta, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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