Symphony No. 4 (Honegger)

The Symphony No. 4 H191 of the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a 1946 resulting Symphony surnamed Deliciae Basiliensis.

Instrumentation and record labels

2 flutes (2nd flute and piccolo ), oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon - 2 Horns, Trumpet - Piano - pool, glockenspiel, tam -tam, triangle, Basler drum - 1st and 2nd violins, violas, cellos and double basses.

Music

The Fourth Symphony is the gayest and brightest confrontation with the composer of this genre, after all, is the subtitle of the Symphony Deliciae Basiliensis to German Basler pleasures. After the war Symphonies No. 2 and No. 3 Honegger tries to return to a cheerful tone. Due to the reduced instrumentation and chamber music transparency Honegger processed cavalier experiences and impressions of the postwar period in Basel. The work so reminiscent of a peace Symphony, which is expressed by the inclusion of the old Swiss national melodies the neutrality of Switzerland. At the end of the second set, the solo horn cites a set to music by Franz Abt lever - poem ( " Z'Basel, a mim Rhi " ), and in the third set Honegger describes in musical form by using the Piccolo and the characteristic Basler Fasnacht a drum march.

Dedication and premiere

The fourth symphony is like the Second Paul Sacher dedicated to the in January 1947 premiered the work on the 20th anniversary of the Basel Chamber Orchestra with this orchestra in Basel.