Symphony No. 1 (Sessions)

The Symphony No. 1 of Roger Sessions is a symphony in three movements, in E minor.

The three movements are as follows:[1]

  1. Giusto
  2. Largo
  3. Allegro vivace

It was completed in January 1927,[2] and premiered by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on April 22, 1927.[3] It was dedicated to Sessions' father Archibald.[2]

It is scored for three flutes (one doubling piccolo), three oboes (one doubling English horn), four clarinets, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, and strings.[4]

Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal".[5]

Discography

References

  1. Sessions
  2. 1 2 Prausnitz, page 83.
  3. Prausnitz, page 89.
  4. Anonymous.
  5. Olmstead, page 356.

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Further reading

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