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Mahler , Strauss and Respighi

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

 Vienna – traditional composer
 Extreme orchestral works – techniques,

ensembles, exploit harmony

 Transparent harmony – small ensemble in

Orchestra

 Lieder and Symphonies 1-9, 10 unfinished

 Symphony n.1 , n.3 , n.5

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMtdjJH

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-

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Mahler’s Intrumentation
symphony n.5

 woodwinds: 4 flutes (3rd & 4th doubling piccolos; for

the last two bars of the Scherzo, all four flutes play
piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doublingEnglish horn),
3 clarinets in B-flat (3rd doubling clarinet in
D1and bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd
doubling contrabassoon)

 brass: 6 horns in F2, 4 trumpets in B-flat and F,

3 trombones, tuba

 percussion: timpani, bass drum, snare

drum, cymbals, triangle, tam-tam, whip, glockenspiel

 strings: harp, violins I, II, violas, violoncellos, double

basses

Richard Strauss(1864-1949)

 Berlin – Late Romantic and leading to

Modern

 Conductor of Berlin State Opera

 Nazi

 “Electra” opera, that most dissonance

 Tone Poems, Lieder

 Till Eulenspiegel, Also Sprach Zaratrustra

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJwbw

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Ottorino Respighi(1879-1936)

 Italian composer, conductor and

musicologist

 Focus 16th-17th, 18thcentury

 Orchestral works

 Roman Trilogy - Fountains of Rome, Pines

of Rome and Roman festival

 Symphonic poems evoking Roman places

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cryf6nru

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