Notes on the German symphony (ongoing)

In Beethoven, for the first time in the European symphony, here is the gentle frolicking lamb; there, violence, rape: the symphony made Bildung, that is, redemptive.

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Schönberg quotes Mahler somewhere in his Op. 16.

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Strauss’ alps… the call to action of the brass in Alpensinfonie… but a call to what? Not simply to tend to our grazing livestock… Germans tend to write brass all too well — the latent martial impulse, the bugle call…

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Brahms Piano Concerto I quotes Beethoven Piano Concerto III and Symph. III, ii.

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Brahms Symph. II quotes Beethoven Symph. IX, ii.

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Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra quotes Brahms Symph. III.

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Mahler Symph. II quotes Wagner Tristan Act I.