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The Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. This symphony was one of Mahler's most popular and successful works during his lifetime. It was his first major work to establish his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection.
The Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1811 and 1812, while improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplitz. The work is dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries .
The key of C minor was, like most other minor keys, associated with the literary Sturm und Drang movement during the Classical period. But ever since Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, of 1808, C minor imparts a symphony in the key a character of heroic struggle.
Symphony in C major, G. 505, Op. 12 No. 3 (1771) Symphony in C major, G. 515, Op. 37 No. 1 (1786) Symphony in C major, G. 523 (1798) [11] William Boyce: Symphony in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 (1749) Joly Braga Santos: Symphony No. 3 in C major (1949) Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 4 Das Siegeslied (1932-33) Symphony No. 7 (1948) Symphony No. 13 (1959 ...
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]
The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. 2, Op. 61, although it was the third symphony he had completed, counting the B-flat major symphony published as No. 1 in 1841, and the original version of his D minor symphony of 1841 (later revised and published as No. 4).
Symphony No. 2, Op. 85 (1908) [12] Tikhon Khrennikov: Symphony No. 2, Op. 9 (1940, rev. 1942) August Klughardt: Symphony No. 4 Op. 57 (1890) Symphony No. 5, Op. 71 (1892-97, orchestration of his lost String Sextet in C sharp minor) Joseph Martin Kraus: Symphony in C minor, VB 142 (a reworking of the Symphony in C-sharp minor, VB 140)
The symphony's first movement moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor, and the work ends with a rondo finale in C major. [2] Thus, as Dika Newlin has pointed out, "in this symphony Mahler returns to the ideal of ' progressive tonality ' which he had abandoned in the Sixth ". [ 3 ]