The Symphony No. 4 of Roger Sessions was composed in 1958. [1]
It has three movements:
It was commissioned by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for the Minnesota Centennial, and premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Antal Doráti [4] on January 2, 1960. [5]
The second movement's basically slow tempo is interrupted twice by faster episodes. This movement was intended as an elegy for the composer's brother, John, who died in 1948. [6] The finale, also slow, increases in intensity towards its close. [7] Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal". [8]
The Symphony No. 4 of Roger Sessions was composed in 1958. [1]
It has three movements:
It was commissioned by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for the Minnesota Centennial, and premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Antal Doráti [4] on January 2, 1960. [5]
The second movement's basically slow tempo is interrupted twice by faster episodes. This movement was intended as an elegy for the composer's brother, John, who died in 1948. [6] The finale, also slow, increases in intensity towards its close. [7] Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal". [8]