Eine Alpensinfonie
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Eine Alpensinfonie is a large-scale symphonic tone poem by Richard Strauss that vividly depicts an ascent and descent of an Alpine mountain through richly orchestrated programmatic music.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orchestral work
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program music ⓘ symphonic poem ⓘ |
| catalogueDesignation | TrV 233 ⓘ |
| chronologicalPositionInStraussTonePoems | last tone poem by Richard Strauss ⓘ |
| completionYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compositionEndYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| compositionStartYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| depicts |
Alpine landscape
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glacier ⓘ meadow ⓘ night ⓘ storm ⓘ summit ⓘ sunrise ⓘ waterfall ⓘ |
| durationMinutes | 45 ⓘ |
| genre |
late-Romantic music
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tone poem ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Friedrich Nietzsche
NERFINISHED
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Strauss’s mountaineering experiences ⓘ |
| key | B-flat major ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
continuous narrative of a day in the mountains
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extreme demands on orchestral forces ⓘ |
| numberOfSections | 22 ⓘ |
| opusNumber | Op. 64 ⓘ |
| orchestration | very large orchestra ⓘ |
| partOf | Strauss tone poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| placeOfComposition | Garmisch-Partenkirchen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereConductor | Richard Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1915-10-28 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereOrchestra | Dresden Hofkapelle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmaticSubject | ascent and descent of an Alpine mountain ⓘ |
| publisher | Adolph Fürstner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
expanded brass section
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large percussion section ⓘ offstage brass ⓘ organ ⓘ thunder sheet ⓘ wind machine ⓘ |
| structure | single continuous movement ⓘ |
| title | Eine Alpensinfonie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | An Alpine Symphony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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