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Symphony No. 4 (Henze)

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insisted on substantial cuts to the score and, as a result, only half of the music was heard at the first performance. Henze rescued one of the cuts - the music from the finale to the second act - and derived his fourth symphony from it. In its original operatic context the music was to accompany a
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scene in which the king, magically transformed into a white stag, has fled into the forest and spends a year there contemplating his future before realising that he must return to the human world.
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The one movement contains all of the normal elements of the usual symphonic form. It commences with a short, slow introduction followed by a
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The opera was due to be given its first performance on 23 September 1956 in Berlin. Rehearsals went badly. The conductor
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The fourth symphony was originally the finale to act two of Henze's opera
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Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
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Henze wrote the symphony whilst he was teaching at the
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Thomas Schulz (2011), liner notes for Wergo recording
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It is in a single movement, lasting some 20 minutes.
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Hans Werner Henze
Hochschule für Musik, Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
König Hirsch
Hermann Scherchen
Darmstadt Summer School for New Music
piccolo
flutes
oboes
cor anglais
clarinets
bass clarinet
bassoons
contrabassoon
horns
trumpets
trombones
tuba
percussion
harp
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strings
sonata form
adagio
scherzo
rondo
Deutsche Grammophon
Brilliant Classics
Berlin Philharmonic

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