Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Beginning with Poco adagio and making numerous tempo changes some of which will be mentioned below.Key: E-flat minor (Introduction) with several intermittent key changes and ending in E-flat major.Time Signature: 4/4 with occasional meter shifts.Form: Introduction and combination of sonata elements (Exposition and Development) with variations and strophic forms that incorporate aspects of… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part II – Schluss-Szene Aus Goethes Faust II (Final Scene of Goethe’s Faust II)
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Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part I – Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus (Come, Creator Spirit)
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Allegro impetuoso; etwas gemässigter, immer sehr fliessend (somewhat more moderate, always very fleeting); etwas gehalten (somewhat held back)Key: E-flat major (second theme in D-flat major; third theme in D minor, with excursions into E major and minor, D-flat and A-flat major, etc.)Time signature: 4/4 (with intervening duple and triple meters in the… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Part I – Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus (Come, Creator Spirit)
Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Introduction
Listening Guide The Work Date of composition: summer, 1906; orchestrated in 1907; published by Universal Editions, February 1911.Place of composition: MaierniggPremiere: Munich, 12 September 1910, Mahler conducting. Orchestration: Piccolo (or double as 5th flute), 4 flutes, 4 oboes, English horn; clarinet in E-flat, 3 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 4 bassoons, contrabassoon, 8 horns, 4 trumpets,… Continue reading Symphony No.8 In E-Flat Major – Introduction