5th Symphony (Honegger)

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The symphony No. 5 H202 by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a symphony written in 1950 with the nickname "di tre re". Each of her three movements ends with the note d, Italian: re, played pizzicato by the lower strings, reinforced by an ad libitum kettledrum. The three resigned clauses are an expression of Honegger's increasingly resigned general mood.

Instrumentation and sentence names

Piccolo flute , 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 .

  1. Grave
  2. Allegretto - Adagio - Allegretto
  3. Allegro marcato

music

The mood of this symphony is largely determined by gloom and tragedy. The first set, only slower opening movement Honegger, does not start with massive chords in contrary motion, a Orgelmixtur dissimilar, with the sonority in the course of the movement loses and disintegrates especially after the recapitulation into smaller instrumental groups without the impression wears off of tragedy. The second movement works with a theme in the four contrapuntal mirror forms. It is colorfully orchestrated, the orchestral section is broken up in a chamber music style and is reminiscent of a Scherzo , with a trio part that is calming twice before the Scherzo returns formally in a cancerous manner. The third movement is an extremely wild finale with a hopelessly pessimistic mood. Through fluttering tongues , Martellato and sometimes highly dissonant harmonies, the aggressiveness is noticeably intensified before the pizzicati-d has the last word at the end.

premiere

Charles Münch directed the premiere on March 9, 1951 in Boston . Honegger wrote the work for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation .

literature

  • Attila Csampai, Dietmar Holland (ed.): The concert guide. Orchestral music from 1700 to the present. 1st edition. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-8052-0450-7 .
  • Malcolm MacDonald (translation by Eckhart van den Hoogen): Honegger. Symphonies 1-5. EMI France, 1979.
  • Herbert Schneider, Foreword to the Eulenburg pocket score edition: Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 5 "di tre re". (= Edition Eulenburg. No. 1519). Schott Musik, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7957-7131-5 .

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