"Symphony No. 3 (Schumann) The Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97, also known as the Rhenish, is the last symphony composed by Robert Schumann (1810–1856), although not the last published. It was composed from 2 November to 9 December 1850, and comprises five movements: The Third Symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B, two bassoons, four French horns in E, two trumpets in E, three trombones, timpani and strings. It premiered on 6 February 1851 in Düsseldorf, conducted by Schumann himself, and was received with mixed reviews, ""ranging from praise without qualification to"
"Symphony No. 3 (Bernstein) Kaddish is Leonard Bernstein's third symphony. The 1963 symphony is a dramatic work written for a large orchestra, a full choir, a boys' choir, a soprano soloist and a narrator. The name of the piece, ""Kaddish"", refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every synagogue service for the dead but never mentions ""death."" The symphony is dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy who was assassinated on November 22, 1963, just weeks before the first performance of the symphony. Leonard Bernstein wrote the text of the narration himself, but struggled with his own"
"a scherzo. The work also shares the ""Rhenish's"" overall tone of exuberant optimism. For these reasons, musicologist David Brown postulates that Tchaikovsky might have conceived the Third Symphony with the notion of what Schumann might have written had he been Russian. The ""Rhenish"", in fact, was one of two works that had most impressed Tchaikovsky during his student days at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory; the other was the ""Ocean"" Symphony by his teacher, Anton Rubinstein. The average performance of this symphony runs about 45 minutes. In his biography and analysis of Tchaikovsky's music, Roland John Wiley likens the five-movement format"
"F minor, the ""uncompromising sonata form"", and the coda in the major key; and to a lesser extent his concert overture ""Coriolan"". Schumann started writing the music in mid-January 1851. His wife Clara noted in her diary on 17 January that he was now working on the overture. He wrote out the full score between 27 January and 2 February, finishing it only a few days before he conducted the premiere of his 3rd Symphony, ""Rhenish"" (6 February). The work had its premiere on 3 August 1852 in Düsseldorf. Earlier that year he had consulted Dr Wolfgang Müller about his"
"Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn) The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the ""Scottish"", is a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn, composed between 1829 and 1842. Mendelssohn was initially inspired to compose this symphony during his first visit to Britain in 1829. After a series of successful performances in London, Mendelssohn embarked on a walking tour of Scotland with his friend Karl Klingemann. On 30 July, Mendelssohn visited the ruins of Holyrood Chapel at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, where, as he related to his family in a letter, he received his initial inspiration for the piece: Alongside this"
"des Grandes Écoles with Mari Kobayashi as soloist and Michael Lonsdale as the narrator. In November 2017, ""Kaddish"" was performed in three concerts by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate Bernstein's 100th birthday at David Geffen Hall, with Tamara Wilson (soprano), Jeremy Irons (narrator), and Leonard Slatkin conducting. Symphony No. 3 (Bernstein) Kaddish is Leonard Bernstein's third symphony. The 1963 symphony is a dramatic work written for a large orchestra, a full choir, a boys' choir, a soprano soloist and a narrator. The name of the piece, ""Kaddish"", refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every synagogue service"
"in the major) and number of movements (five). Patterned after Schumann's ""Rhenish"" Symphony and possibly conceived with the notion of what that composer might write if he were Russian, the Third shows Tchaikovsky at what musicologist Hans Keller calls ""his freest and most fluent so far."" Academic movements rub shoulders with fanciful, dance-like ones not far removed from the composer's ballets (his first, ""Swan Lake"", was not far off the horizon) in the manner of the orchestral suites the composer would write between his Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. Some musicologists, Brown among them, brand the Third uneven in quality and"
"Symphony No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 between 1935 and 1936. The Third Symphony is considered a transitional work in Rachmaninoff's output. In melodic outline and rhythm it is his most expressively Russian symphony, particularly in the dance rhythms of the finale. What was groundbreaking in this symphony was its greater economy of utterance compared to its two predecessors. This sparer style, first apparent in the ""Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"", enhances the emotional power of the work. The symphony was premiered on November 6, 1936, with Leopold Stokowski conducting"
"Symphony No. 3 (Rorem) The Symphony No. 3 is a composition for orchestra by the American composer Ned Rorem. The work was first performed by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Hall on April 16, 1959. The Symphony No. 3 has a duration of roughly 24 minutes and is cast in five movements: The movements were not composed in chronological order; Rorem wrote the ""Allegro molto vivace"" first, the ""Pasacaglia"" second, the ""Andante"" third, the ""Largo"" fourth, and the ""Allegro molto"" last. Rorem called the first movement ""a slow overture in the grand style."""
"cyclic structure Mendelssohn has created across the symphony's four movements and nowadays critics are more inclined to recognize the composer's original and lasting contribution to the nineteenth-century symphony. Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn) The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the ""Scottish"", is a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn, composed between 1829 and 1842. Mendelssohn was initially inspired to compose this symphony during his first visit to Britain in 1829. After a series of successful performances in London, Mendelssohn embarked on a walking tour of Scotland with his friend Karl Klingemann. On 30 July, Mendelssohn visited the ruins"
"the paramount architectural concept in Western classical music, not with it. The First, while conventional in form, shows Tchaikovsky's individuality strongly; it is rich in melodic invention and exudes Mendelssohnian charm and grace. The Second Symphony is among the more accessible of Tchaikovsky's works and exists in two versions. While the latter version is the one generally performed today, Tchaikovsky's friend and former student Sergei Taneyev considered the earlier one to be finer compositionally speaking. The Third, the only symphony Tchaikovsky completed in a major key, is written in five movements, similar to Robert Schumann's ""Rhenish"" Symphony, shows Tchaikovsky alternating"
"Symphony No. 3 (Harbison) The Symphony No. 3 is an orchestral composition by the American composer John Harbison. The work was commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the conductor David Zinman for the orchestra's 75th anniversary. It was given its world premiere on February 26, 1991 by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra directed by Zinman. The piece is dedicated to Harbison's friend and fellow composer Christopher Rouse. Harbison described his inspiration for the work in the score program notes, writing, ""Among the first musical images were a carillon melody associated with the church of San Ilario, near Genoa, a long"
"Symphony No. 3 (Khachaturian) The Symphony No. 3 by Aram Khachaturian, subtitled Symphony–Poem, was composed in 1947 for the 30th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and premiered on Leningrad on December 13 by the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. It was his last contribution to the genre. Originally conceived as a symphonic poem, it is a single movement symphony featuring an organ solo and fifteen trumpets conceived as a hymn of praise of the Soviet Union, with Khachaturian saying that he ""wanted this work to express the Soviet people’s joy and pride in their great and mighty country"". However,"
"the work's raw and strident style, which has been related to the 1920s Soviet constructivist avantgarde, and unorthodox structure and instrumentation dissatisfied the Stalinist cultural authorities, and it was condemned as formalistic in the 1948 Zhdanov decree. Symphony No. 3 (Khachaturian) The Symphony No. 3 by Aram Khachaturian, subtitled Symphony–Poem, was composed in 1947 for the 30th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and premiered on Leningrad on December 13 by the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. It was his last contribution to the genre. Originally conceived as a symphonic poem, it is a single movement symphony featuring an organ"
"Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Opus 20; subtitled ""First of May"") by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on 21 January 1930 (the anniversary of Lenin's death). Similar to the Second Symphony, it is an experimental choral symphony in four continuous sections: The symphony lasts around 25 to 30 minutes. The finale sets a text by Semyon Isaakovich Kirsanov praising May Day and the revolution. Interpretation is difficult: in a letter to Boleslav Yavorsky, Shostakovich said that the work ""expresses the spirit"
"Symphony No. 3 (Brahms) The Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90, is a symphony by Johannes Brahms. The work was written in the summer of 1883 at Wiesbaden, nearly six years after he completed his Symphony No. 2. In the interim Brahms had written some of his greatest works, including the Violin Concerto, two overtures (""Tragic Overture"" and ""Academic Festival Overture""), and Piano Concerto No. 2. The premiere performance was given on 2 December 1883 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Richter. It is the shortest of Brahms' four symphonies; a typical performance lasts"
"Symphony No. 3 (Brahms) The Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90, is a symphony by Johannes Brahms. The work was written in the summer of 1883 at Wiesbaden, nearly six years after he completed his Symphony No. 2. In the interim Brahms had written some of his greatest works, including the Violin Concerto, two overtures (""Tragic Overture"" and ""Academic Festival Overture""), and Piano Concerto No. 2. The premiere performance was given on 2 December 1883 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Richter. It is the shortest of Brahms' four symphonies; a typical performance lasts"
"Symphony No. 3 (Sessions) The Symphony No. 3 of Roger Sessions was written in 1957. It was a result of a commission by the Koussevitzky Foundation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was premiered by the Boston Symphony on December 6, 1957, conducted by Charles Munch. Sessions later was commissioned by the Boston Symphony on their centenary, when he provided them with his Concerto for Orchestra (premiered 1981). Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as ""serious"" and ""funereal"", with No. 3 being one of four with, ""quiet reflective endings."" It is scored for three"
"Symphony No. 3 (Davies) The Symphony No. 3 by Peter Maxwell Davies was composed in 1984 on a commission from the BBC Philharmonic, who gave the world premiere on 19 February 1985, at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, with Edward Downes conducting. The form of the symphony, along with those of its predecessors, owes a great debt to the symphonies of Sibelius . A second influence came from Renaissance architecture, particularly the churches of Filippo Brunelleschi. Davies explains that his use of Fibonacci numbers to proportion the symphony was modelled directly on Brunelleschi's structures . The symphony is scored"
"of engaging ideas and, in a word, boring."" Tony Gualtieri's review of the Naxos CD at classical-music-review.org praised the piece, calling it ""a major work, an homage to the past recalling composers such as Mahler and Bartók."" Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki) Symphony No. 3 is a symphony for orchestra in five movements composed between 1988 and 1995 by Krzysztof Penderecki. It was commissioned and completed for the 100 year celebration of the Munich Philharmonic. Its earliest version, ""Passacaglia and Rondo"" (which later served as the basis for the second and fourth movements of the complete symphony), premiered at the International"
"Symphony No. 3 (MacMillan) The Symphony No. 3 (also known as Symphony No. 3 ""Silence"") is the third symphony by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. The piece was first performed on April 17, 2003 in NHK Hall, Tokyo, by the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Charles Dutoit. The symphony has a duration of roughly 36 minutes and is composed in one continuous movement. The title of the piece comes from the 1966 novel ""Silence"" by the Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. MacMillan described this inspiration in the score program notes, writing: The composition also includes a musical allusion to the"
"again: tonality is now acceptable everywhere, and composers 40 years younger than Mr. Rorem (who is a young-looking 76) write music that makes similar allusions."" Kozinn also called it ""a demanding work"" and wrote, ""Its dense, outgoing sections require power and assurance, and its more graceful slow movements require delicacy and a fine balance."" Symphony No. 3 (Rorem) The Symphony No. 3 is a composition for orchestra by the American composer Ned Rorem. The work was first performed by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Hall on April 16, 1959. The Symphony No. 3"
"Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Enescu) The Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, Op. 27, subtitled ""Villageoise"" in French (""Săteasca"" in Romanian), is an orchestral composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1937–38. In 1936, Enescu received a commission from the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra for an orchestral composition to be premiered in January 1938. He began work in April 1937, though he incorporated into the new work sketches that had been made earlier. Although the score of the ""Village"" Suite was virtually completed in late 1937 or early 1938, Enescu was not yet satisfied that the score"
"Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski) Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (a.k.a. ""The Song of the Night"") is a symphony composed by Karol Szymanowski during the period 1914 - 1916 after a period spent travelling in Eastern Europe. The symphony is considered to be one of Szymanowski's finest works. The symphony is a musical setting of a poem by the 13th-century Persian mystic Jalal ud-Din Rumi translated by Polish poet and friend of composer Tadeusz Miciński, supposed to celebrate the exceptional beauty of the Eastern night. A typical performance of the symphony lasts about 25 minutes. The symphony is influenced by Richard"
"Symphony No. 3 (Toch) Symphony No. 3, Op. 75 (1955) is Ernst Toch's (1887—1964) third of seven symphonies. He was awarded the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the piece. Premiered December 2, 1955 by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg, it was commissioned by the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee of Chicago. The orchestration includes a ""hisser"", a carbon dioxide tank that makes a hissing noise, whose use is optional. His first three symphonies were inspired by his need to flee Nazi Germany and move to America. Selecting the piece the jury wrote: ""one of his finest works,"
"Symphony No. 3 (Enescu) Symphony No. 3, Op. 21, in C major is a large-scale orchestral-vocal composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1916–18. Enescu began writing the Third Symphony at Sinaia in May 1916, not long before Romania entered the First World War. During the withdrawal of Romania to the province of Moldavia in face of the invading forces of the Central Powers, he finished the first movement in 1917 at Iași. The second movement was completed at the height of the conflict, in January 1918, also at Iași, and the third was finished on 20 August"
"as the bells which are used in Catholic churches at the Elevation of the Host"". The strongly contrasted characters of the three movements—and especially the paradisal serenity of the finale—have tempted some critics, beginning with Pierre Lalo in 1921, to interpret the symphony programmatically as a ""Dantesque trilogy"" of Purgatory (alternatively, Earth), Inferno, and Paradise . Symphony No. 3 (Enescu) Symphony No. 3, Op. 21, in C major is a large-scale orchestral-vocal composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1916–18. Enescu began writing the Third Symphony at Sinaia in May 1916, not long before Romania entered the First"
"the third movement – ""poco allegretto"" instead of the rapid scherzo standard in 19th-century symphony – Brahms created a unique kind of third movement that is moderate in tempo (""poco allegretto"") and intensely lyrical in character. The finale is a lyrical, passionate movement, rich in melody that is intensely exploited, altered, and developed. The movement ends with reference to the motto heard in the first movement – one which quotes a motif heard in Schumann's Symphony No. 3, ""Rhenish"" in the first movement just before the second theme enters in the recapitulation – then fades away to a quiet ending."
"my mind: that I didn't have a Third Symphony in me any more. Personally, I am firmly convinced that this is a good work. But——sometimes composers are mistaken too! Be that as it may, I am holding to my opinion so far."" Symphony No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 between 1935 and 1936. The Third Symphony is considered a transitional work in Rachmaninoff's output. In melodic outline and rhythm it is his most expressively Russian symphony, particularly in the dance rhythms of the finale. What was groundbreaking in this symphony was"
"Symphony No. 3 (Rouse) Symphony No. 3 is an orchestral composition in two movements by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was jointly commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. It was completed February 3, 2011 and premiered May 5, 2011 by the Saint Louis Symphony under David Robertson at Powell Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. The piece is dedicated to Rouse's high school music teacher, John Merrill. Rouse conceived the Symphony No. 3 as a reworking of Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 2 in D minor"
"was a poor conductor and quickly aroused the opposition of the musicians. According to Harold C. Schonberg, in his 1967 ""The Great Conductors"": ""The great composer was impossible on the platform ... There is something heartrending about poor Schumann's epochal inefficiency as a conductor."" His contract was eventually terminated. By the end of that year he completed his Symphony No. 3, ""Rhenish"" (a work containing five movements and whose 4th movement is apparently intended to represent an episcopal coronation ceremony). In 1851 he revised what would be published as his fourth symphony. From 1851 to 1853 he visited Switzerland, Belgium"
"Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki) Symphony No. 3 is a symphony for orchestra in five movements composed between 1988 and 1995 by Krzysztof Penderecki. It was commissioned and completed for the 100 year celebration of the Munich Philharmonic. Its earliest version, ""Passacaglia and Rondo"" (which later served as the basis for the second and fourth movements of the complete symphony), premiered at the International Music Festival Week in Lucerne, Switzerland, on August 20, 1988. It was performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and conducted by Penderecki. The full symphony premiered in Munich on December 8, 1995, and performed by the Munich"
"Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 55, (also Italian Sinfonia Eroica, ""Heroic Symphony"") is a symphony in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven. One of the composer's most celebrated works, the ""Eroica"" symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of Beethoven's creative middle-period. Composed mainly in 1803–1804, the work is grounded in the Classical symphonic tradition while also stretching boundaries of form, length, harmony, and perceived emotional and possibly cultural content. It has therefore widely been considered an important landmark in the transition between the Classical period and the Romantic era. Symphony"