Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Felix Mendelssohn, Niels Gade, Hector Berlioz
13 Oct 2016
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At the beginning 19th: made up of strings, double woodwind,2 horns, 2 trumpet, timpani. End triple woodwind, 20 brass, much larger strings. Challenge of beethoven"s legacy: could be neither copied nor ignored. Robert schumann, 1835: after the 9th the (cid:498)dimensions and goals of the symphony(cid:499) had been exhausted. Other: sense the symphony is done, nothing left to say. Rose in popularity in 1830s; decreased in prominence around 1850 when liszt introduced the symphonic form (when composer is struggling) Really beethoven movement of work in orchestral piece on its own. Felix mendelssohn, robert schumann, niels gade, hector berlioz. Lobgesang symphony (1840) is a hybrid symphony-cantata- response to the 9th. Most programmatic symphonies: the (cid:712)reformation(cid:713)(1830), the(cid:713)italian(cid:713)(1833), the (cid:712)scottish(cid:713) (1842) Cocert ouverture: frequently programmatic (eg. hebrides, fingals cave) First composer to explore romantic potential of the concert overture. Mendelssohn"s personal response to art or nature (place, existing works) Mendelssohn use sonata form, he does creative, explore interesting ideas of music.
