Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)

Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op 38, also called Spring Symphony, was at the height of his life in just four days of January 1841. He himself said that the work was " born in fiery hour," and he was " very been saved " about this work:

"I wrote the symphony, if I may say, that spring urge the well enraptures people up in the highest age and in every year falls again. Signs, paint, I would not; but that the time range in which the symphony was, to their design, and that it has just become so, as it is acted, I do believe. "

A poetic inspiration for the symphony provided, inter alia, a short poem by Adolf Böttger, which ends with the lines:

These words can be considered as rhythmic presentation of Anfangsfanfare and the main theme of the first movement.

Set names

The game takes about 35 minutes.

Orchestra

Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, triangle, strings

Reception

At the premiere on March 31, 1841 Felix Mendelssohn conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. The work was very well received by the audience.