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The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third movement), and the ...
Symphony No. 1 (Mozart) in E-flat major (K. 16) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1764; Symphony No. 1 (Myaskovsky) in C minor (Op. 3) by Nikolai Myaskovsky, 1908, revised 1921; Symphony No. 1 (Natra) by Sergiu Natra, 1944; Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen) in G minor (Op. 7, FS 16) by Carl Nielsen, 1891–92; Symphony No. 1 (Paine) in C minor by John Knowles ...
For all that, Walton's Symphony No 1 is a free, strong, individual utterance, as far beyond mere imitation as, say, the Brahms First is in its relationship to Beethoven. Not many would wish to call Walton one of the great twentieth-century composers, but the claim that his First Symphony is one of the great twentieth-century symphonies is not ...
The Symphony No. 1 in E ♭ major, K. 16, is a symphony written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years. [1] By this time, he was already notable in Europe as a wunderkind performer but had composed little music. The autograph score (handwritten original) of the symphony is today preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in ...
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 1 in D major, Hoboken I/1, was written in 1759 in Unter-Lukawitz, while in the service of Count Morzin. [ a ] [ 1 ] While it is reliably known that No. 1 was written in 1759, H. C. Robbins Landon cannot rule out that No. 2, [ 2 ] No. 4, [ 3 ] or both could have been composed in 1757 or 1758.
The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works.
The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, is a symphony written by Johannes Brahms. Brahms spent at least fourteen years completing this work, whose sketches date from 1854. Brahms himself declared that the symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took 21 years, from 1855 to 1876.
By the age of 18, Strauss had composed nearly 150 works. Strauss wrote the symphony whilst attending school, from 12 March to 12 June 1880. [2] He wrote to his mother "I'm getting on all right at school, the symphony is making jolly good progress, all four movements are finished now. I've scored the Scherzo and almost all of the first movement ...