Classical Composer: | Bizet, Georges |
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Work: | Symphony in C Major |
Year Composed: | 1855 |
Instrumentation: | 2222/4200/timp/str |
Publishers: |
Universal Edition Edwin F. Kalmus Ernst Eulenburg The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection |
Duration: | 00:24:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Bizet started work on his only completed symphony on 29th October 1855, completing the work in the following month. His achievement is all the more remarkable in view of his age at the time, seventeen, and his status as a Conservatoire student still two years away from a first prize in the Prix de Rome. The symphony remained unperformed, the score passed by the composer's widow, Geneviéve Bizet, to Reynaldo Hahn, who thought little of it. Its discovery in 1933, after Hahn had deposited these and other papers in the Conservatoire, led to a first performance in 1935 under Weingartner and continuing popularity as a part of standard classical orchestral repertoire.
Classical in form and general texture, Bizet's Symphony in C opens with an Allegro vivo in tripartite sonata-allegro form and an Adagio that brings a winning oboe solo and a central fugal section. There is a perfectly formed scherzo and trio and a finale that gives a foretaste of Carmen in the opening of its principal subject.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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