| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 |
|---|---|
| Composition Year | 1848? |
| Genre Categories | Symphonies; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra |
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| Work Title | Symphony |
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| Alternative. Title | Es muss doch Frühling werden |
| Composer | Hiller, Ferdinand |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.67 ; HW1.67 |
| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | IFH 69 |
| Key | E minor |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1848? |
| First Performance. | 1849 or earlier |
| First Publication. | 1865 ? |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 33 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | Orchestra (2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings) |
| External Links | B-Br Ms II 4102 Mus Fétis 3076 B-Br 700000360 (more direct link to the same at B-Br) (autograph dated 1860, gifted to Fétis and housed in Robert Schumann-Haus Zwickau, but also in Belgium, where it's downloadable, see above link.) |
Performed in 1849, March 15, conducted by Julius Rietz at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Performed in 1852, January 14, conducted by Franz Liszt, in Weimar. Fifield points out it was performed some 20 times between 1850 and 1875. Chronology of Hiller's symphonies seems to be along the lines of 1831 (symphony 2 in A minor performed December 4, 1831?), 1848 (this work), 1849 (something mentioned by Schumann- maybe already in list - perhaps this work!), 1852 (symphony in G "Im Freien"), , possibly others (the E minor and F minor symphonies not known to me when I recall first writing this, for instance - ELS). (A minor may be a misprint; at least one contemporary reports the same concert as the Hyperion Records notes from which that information does come, but gives no key. Three ca.1830–31 symphonies still exist, in F minor, E minor, scanned by the Goethe-University Frankfurt. There is a C major symphony from ca.1876 (sometimes misdated to the 1830s.))
Bert Hagels, in the notes to the second volume of Hiller's symphonies on cpo (the first contains the first complete* and commercial full-orchestral recording of Op.67), attempts to untangle the symphonies' chronology per our best current information (link to a summary at UnsungComposers.com.)
The title may refer to the political events (so, figurative Spring) of 1848.
Autograph dated as late as 1860 one guesses because it was gifted to Fétis at that point, not because the work was composed that late, though there may be other explanations.
*a 2011 noncommercial Hiller Concert contained alas only the first movement; a commercial recording before vol.1 of the cpo series was of a piano reduction only. So...
