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Symphony in C major (Wagner)

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136: 115: 90: 72: 297:. Wagner made several revisions to the full score for the performance. In a subsequent "Essay on the Revival of Youthful Works" he wrote: "If there is anything at all in this work which shows the mark of Richard Wagner, it is the fact that it is not polluted by the hypocritical stance which was to appear later and which Germans find very difficult to get the better of, and the fact that, from the outset, he remained true to himself and was unwilling to be deflected from his proper course." 1468: 1478: 1488: 822: 810: 798: 778: 766: 754: 742: 727: 699: 687: 675: 305:
The same 1882 essay contains a passage in which Wagner implies that Mendelssohn had tried to deliberately suppress the Symphony. The score had in fact been given by Wagner to Mendelssohn as a gift, as is demonstrable from a letter written by Wagner on 11 April 1836; Wagner perhaps had a grievance
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and Beethoven. According to Emanuel Overbeeke the work shows the composer's inexperience (he was 19 years old when writing it), in particular in the so-called diffuseness of the first and second movements. For John Deathridge, on the other hand, the symphony, albeit unoriginal in its Beethovenian
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that Mendelssohn had not subsequently conducted it. In 1874 Wagner told Cosima that he thought Mendelssohn had destroyed the score "perhaps because he detected in it a talent which was disagreeable to him." This invention was of a piece with Wagner's
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According to Wagner himself, in a letter to a friend, he composed the symphony in the brief space of six weeks at the beginning of the summer of 1832. The composition shows the influence of the symphonies of
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in 1877 in a trunk which had been left behind by Wagner when he fled the city in 1849. The work was performed again at Christmas 1882, two months before Wagner's death, for the birthday of Wagner's wife
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Wagner also started in 1834 an incomplete symphony in E major (WWV 35), of which only the first movement and part of the second movement exist. The symphony was heavily influenced by
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The fourth movement is structured in the same classical sonata form as the opening movement. The idea which follows the presentation of the first theme is equivocal in
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went to the Euterpe hall on Saturday. Listen! Herr Wagner has got ahead of you; a symphony of his was performed, which is said to be as like as two peas to
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Overbeeke, Emanuel (2012), "Richard Wagner: Symphonies in C and E / Huldigungsmarsch /Kaisermarsch / Overture to ‘Rienzi’", in
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with the traditional structure A + B + A + B + A + coda. The scherzo is characterised by a dynamic rhythm, whilst the trio (
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version of the Symphony in Wagner's hand, probably prepared in 1832 or 1833. Most of the first movement is in the
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on 10 January 1833, as part of the annual subscription concerts. The work received another performance at
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The second movement is in the key of A minor; the overall shape is A + B + B + A +
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The score was subsequently thought to have been lost after Wagner presented it to
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The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts
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style, evinces a technical assurance proving the ability of its young author.
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in 1836 (see below), but the parts from the Prague performance were found in
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The symphony was performed in rehearsal by a student orchestra at the
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described the performance in a letter to her future husband
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954
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symphony
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Beethoven
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sonata form

coda

scherzo
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tonality

flutes
oboes
clarinets
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contrabassoon
horns
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trombones
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strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Weber
Prague Conservatory
Dionys Weber
Leipzig

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