The Classical Music Book

159 worthy of a concerto, while Op. 74, known as the “Harp” quartet, has movements in both the heroic and classical moods. The l ...

160 variations. The fifth jumps in with an extensive scherzo (a fast dance). A 28-measure adagio (leisurely) sixth movement lead ...

161 A powerful crescendo then leads to two sets of three chords, each followed by a dramatic silence heralding the sixth movemen ...

162 INSTRUMENTATION IS AT THE HEAD OF THE MARCH SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (1830), HECTOR BERLIOZ T hroughout his career, French comp ...

163 Hector Berlioz conducts a deafening orchestra in a caricature published by the French newspaper L’Illustration, in 1845. Beh ...

164 W hile Chopin was one of the supreme composers of the early Romantic period, he was in some respects untypical of the age he ...

165 See also: Pièces de clavecin 82–83 ■ Die schöne Müllerin 150 –155 ■ Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 228–231 ■ Ravel’s Pian ...

166 MY SYMPHONIES WOULD HAVE REACHED OPUS 100 IF I HAD WRITTEN THEM DOWN SYMPHONY NO. 1, THE “SPRING” SYMPHONY (1841), ROBERT SC ...

167 See also: “Eroica” Symphony 136–139 ■ Die schöne Müllerin 148–153 ■ Symphonie fantastique 162–163 ■ Faust Symphony 176 –17 7 ...

168 Leipzig, with Mendelssohn as its conductor, and was well recieved by its audience. A Romantic symphony The title of the “Spr ...

169 movement as a scherzo and trio, Schumann was influenced by Beethoven, who had created this structure out of the older minuet ...

170 THE LAST NOTE WAS DROWNED ... IN A UNANIMOUS VOLLEY OF PLAUDITS ELIJAH (1846), FELIX MENDELSSOHN C horal music had started t ...

171 See also: Magnus Liber organi 28–31 ■ Canticum Canticorum 46–51 ■ Monteverdi’s Vespers 64–69 ■ St. Matthew Passion 98–105 Fe ...

172 Its subsequent performance (in an English translation) in Liverpool, England, and later in the US gained him a reputation a ...

173 the Te Deum specifies 12 harps. As a result, performances were—and still are—rare and impractical, and so this music had lit ...

174 I LOVE ITALIAN OPERA—IT’S SO RECKLESS LA TRAVIATA (1853), GIUSEPPE VERDI I t was usual in the first decades of the 19th cent ...

175 See also: The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ The Barber of Seville 14 8 ■ Der Freischütz 149 ■ Tosca 194 –197 ■ The Wreckers 232–239 ...

176 Mephistopheles holds a mirror up to Faust in a poster created by Richard Roland Holst for a 1918 Dutch National Theatre prod ...

177 See also: Stamitz’s Symphony in E-flat major 116–117 ■ Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor 128–131 ■ “Eroica” 138–141 ■ Symp ...

178 See also: Le bourgeois gentilhomme 70–71 ■ Water Music 84–89 ■ Symphonie fantastique 162–163 ■ The Nutcracker 190 –191 O ne ...