Symphony No. 1 (Ives)

His Symphony No. 1 in D minor, JS 1, Charles Ives wrote in 1898 to 1901. Was first performed on 26 April 1953 in Washington, DC instead. The four-movement work was written for Ives ' final examination and has an approximate running time of 37 minutes.

In music romantic elements are also to be found as polytonality and polyrhythms. For the piece, two flutes, two oboes, one English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings are needed. In addition, an optional playable voice available for a third flute.

Sets

The symphony consists of the following sentences:

Music

Work on the symphony was also in numerous interventions of Ives ' composition teacher Horatio Parker. So Ives should the first and the fourth set to rewrite, as these passages contained polychord - a general characteristic already of his first works. Finally, the harmonic friction of him were hidden in the first set, the fourth sentence Ives could agree with Parker on getting the basic version, with the only condition to have them end in D minor. Furthermore it has the Symphony noticeable romantic trains and the general style of the 19th century, Parker made ​​were incorporated into the score with.

The second movement begins with an English horn solo, which refers to the place the same instrument from the second movement of Dvorak's Symphony " From the New World ". Furthermore, the two middle movements, many rhythmic " stumbling " on. It also failed Walter Damrosch in 1910 on a sample of the work, what then was a performance. The premiere finally took place only on 26 April 1953 a year before Ives ' death.