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Symphony" is a 1945 song written by Alex Alstone, André Tabet and Roger Bernstein. First brought to the United States by Johnny Desmond and the Glenn Miller Air Force Band , the song is also notable for having topped Billboard 's sales, jukebox, radio, and Honor Roll of Hits charts in 1946, and having appeared on Billboard 's first official ...
The English symphony song was a musical genre of baroque music best known in the compositions of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries including his teacher John Blow. In the symphony song voices and continuo were enriched with ritornelli for violins or a pair of recorders . [ 1 ]
Gustav Holst (1874–1934), English composer of a Symphony F major (The Cotswolds, 1900), as well as a First Choral Symphony (1924), for soprano, mixed chorus, and orchestra (fragmentary sketches also exist for a Second Choral Symphony); in addition, the composer also completed a Scherzo (1933–34) for a projected but unfinished symphony.
In some forms of English, the word "symphony" is also used to refer to the orchestra, the large ensemble that often performs these works. The word "symphony" appears in the name of many orchestras, for example, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, or Miami's New World Symphony.
The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (Czech: Symfonie č. 9 e moll "Z nového světa"), also known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895.
Franz Schubert's song "An die Freude", D 189, for voice, unison choir and piano. Composed in May 1815, Schubert's setting was first published in 1829 as Op. post. 111 No. 1. The 19th century Gesamt-Ausgabe included it as a lied in Series XX, Volume 2 (No. 66). The New Schubert Edition groups it with the part songs in Series III (Volume 3). [19]
Kullervo, Op. 7 (1891–1892, withdrawn 1893) * [considered variously as a choral symphony and as a cycle of five tone poems] En saga , Op. 9 (1892, revised 1902) Spring Song , Op. 16 (1894, revised 1895)
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the ...