Symphony in F major (Saint-Saëns)

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Saint-Saëns in 1858

The symphony in F major , nicknamed Urbs Roma ( City of Rome ), is a work for orchestra by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns .

Instrumentation and sentence names

instrumentation

2 flutes
2 oboes
2 clarinets
2 bassoons
4 horns
2 trumpets
Timpani
Strings

Sentence names

  • Largo - Allegro
  • Molto vivace
  • Moderato assai serioso
  • Poco allegretto - Andante con moto

General

Saint-Saëns wrote the symphony at the age of 21 in 1856. He won first prize with it in a composition competition of the Société Sainte-Cécile in Bordeaux. He did not receive the Prix ​​de Rome , for which he had actually written the symphony. It is the third of his five symphonies.

It was first performed on February 15, 1857 by the Société des jeunes artistes du Conservatoire under Jules Pasdeloup ; the second performance was conducted on June 10, 1857 in Bordeaux by Saint-Saëns himself.

The work supposedly "celebrates" the fame of Rome, the so-called "Eternal City", although it is not certain why the symphony was named.

Today the piece is no longer performed regularly, such as Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony .

literature

  • Philippe Mongeot: Saint Saëns: The Five Symphonies , Supplement to Jean Martinon (conductor): Saint-Saëns: Les 5 Symphonies , EMI , 2003
  • Sabina Teller Ratner: Camille Saint-Saëns. 1835-1921. A thematic catalog of his complete works, vol. 1: The Instrumental Works , Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 266-268
  • Daniel Fallon: Saint-Saëns and the Concours de Composition musicale in Bordeaux , in: Journal of the American Musicological Society 31/2 (1978), pp. 309-325
  • Michael Stegemann: Camille Saint-Saëns. With self-testimony and picture documents presented by Michael Stegemann (rowohlts monographs), Reinbek bei Hamburg 1988
  • Peter Jost: Art. Saint-Saëns, (Charles-) Camille , in: Music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music founded by Friedrich Blume , 2., neubearb. Edition ed. by Ludwig Finscher , Part 14, Kassel a. a. 2005, col. 803-820

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabina Teller Ratner: Camille Saint-Saëns. 1835-1921. A thematic catalog of his complete works, vol. 1: The Instrumental Works , pp. 266-268
  2. ↑ Philippe Mongeot: Saint Saens: The five symphonies , Supplement to: Jean Martinon (Conductor): Saint-Saens: Les 5 Symphonies , EMI , 2003
  3. ^ Daniel Fallon: Saint-Saëns and the Concours de Composition musicale in Bordeaux , in: Journal of the American Musicological Society 31/2 (1978), pp. 309-325