Symphony No. 5 (Honegger)

The Symphony No. 5 in H202 of the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a 1950 resulting Symphony with the nickname " Di tre re" and is in B- flat major.

Musical work marking

Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons - 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba - timpani ad libitum - 1st and 2nd violins, violas, cellos and double basses.

Music

The mood of this symphony is intended for long stretches of gloom and tragedy. The first set, only slower header Honegger, begins with an agonizing Orgelmixtur, but which dissolves in the course of the sentence into smaller groups of instruments, but without losing any of tragedy. The final ending in the three eponymous pizzicato D, which recur every sentence at the end and for Honegger possibly a symbol of the inevitable fate represented. The second movement recalls the colorful orchestration and chamber music composition at a scherzo, but bears in the middle of an expressive Adagio, again before the scherzo part of the sentence leads to an end. The third sentence, however, is a most wild and riotous finale with a hopeless pessimistic mood. By flutter tongues, Martellato and partly highly dissonant harmonies, the aggressiveness tightened visibly, before finally the three inevitable pizzicato -D get the last word.

Premiere

Charles Munch conducted the premiere in Boston in 1951. Honegger wrote the work for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.