History of the Symphony
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The ability to hold a person's attention through music without text over a long span of time requires enormous contrasts, invention, discipline, and knowledge. A Symphony is an attempt to fuse the very best of extremely diverse elements of music and pay tribute to the millions of different sounds and forms and contents and cultures which music can show us. The Symphony is a musical democracy through which every kind and possibility of music's meaning is sounded together in dialogue with one another, and it's the ultimate musical, and perhaps even poetic, statement of a culture that means to live...
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- Class 2 - Beethoven - Glory of the Tradition
- Class 1 - Haydn - Founder of the Tradition
- Class 6 - The Symphonic Turning Point
- Class 5 - The Symphonic Breaking Point
- Class 4 - The German Middle Class
- Class 3 - The Austrian Tradition
- Introduction