MUS 353 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Symphonie Fantastique, Harriet Smithson, Robert Schumann
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Richard wagner maintained that the ninth symphony effectively marked the end of the genre. With it beethoven had demonstrated what wagner considered the futility of absolute music. Any composer tempted to write a symphony now would have no choice but to copy. Beethoven by including voices and text, thereby committing the sing of unoriginality, or retreat to the inadequacy of a purely instrumental format. It was the french composer hector berlioz who would be most widely acclaimed as. Beethoven"s true heir, not b/c he imitated beethoven, but b/c each of his three symphonies was so strikingly original and different from anything heard before. The symphonies of liszt and mahler, in particularly, are deeply indebted to the legacy of. The first of them, the of liszt and mahler, in particularly, are deeply indebted to the legacy of berlioz. All three of berlioz"s symphonies are programmatic to varying degrees.
