Orchestra
SKU:
BR.PB-32030
Urtext. Composed
by Friedrich Schneider.
Orchestra.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
Symphony; Romantic. Full
score. 80 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
32030. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-32030).
ISBN
9790004215159. 0 x 0
inches.
Promising
Discovery When a
recording of this
Symphony No. 17 by
Friedrich Schneider
appeared in 2002, it
attracted some attention.
Now, Breitkopf & Hartel
presents the work that,
like all Schneider's
symphonies, had remained
unpublished, for the
first time in a modern
edition. The composer
does not use a
pathetic-heroic tone as
suggested by the key, but
follows the urgent,
roving, and cantabile
character that the key
has possessed, especially
in early Romanticism
since the Sturm und
Drang. It is reminiscent
of Franz Schubert who
ventured a very similar
reinterpretation of the
classical symphony. With
this work Schneider
succeeds in designing a
remarkably coherent and
carefully developed
composition. A gain for
the repertoire, since the
symphony, composed in
1822 and premiered that
year in the Leipzig
Gewandhaus, shows so much
merit.