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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 symphony was reworked to become the overture to Mozart's opera, La finta semplice, K. 51, [2] composed and performed later that year, and the overture itself was subsequently adapted further to create a new symphony, known in the Köchel 1964 (K6) catalogue as K. 46a. The autograph of the score is preserved in the Berlin State Library. [2]
Symphony No. 7 (Tchaikovsky) in E-flat sketched by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, c. 1892, reconstructed 1951–55 Symphony No. 7 (Vaughan Williams) ( Sinfonia antartica ) by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1949–52
The Dvořák specialist John Clapham writes that "without doubt" the No. 7 "must surely be Dvořák's greatest symphony," [4] although elsewhere he writes that the No. 9 is the most popular worldwide. [5] As Symphony No. 9 is so often played, Clapham in effect recommends that conductors perform, and listeners hear, No. 7 as well.
The Symphony No. 7 was completed on December 27, 1941, followed by the first American news reports about it in January 1942. Its origins in the siege of Leningrad , during which Shostakovich briefly worked in a local firefighting brigade, generated levels of public interest and press coverage considered unusually high for a modern musical ...
Symphony No. 7 is the name given to a four-movement symphony in E major (D 729) drafted by Franz Schubert in August 1821. Although the work (which comprises about 1350 bars) [ 1 ] is structurally complete, Schubert only orchestrated the slow introduction and the first 110 bars of the first movement.
The Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105, is a single-movement work for orchestra written from 1914 to 1924 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The composition is notable for having only one movement, in contrast to the standard symphonic formula of four movements.
The following notable composers have written a Symphony No. 7 in A Major: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 (1811-2) Max Trapp Symphony No. 7, Op. 55