Lachner: Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 & Festival Overture

Featuring

Gernot Schmalfuss
Evergreen Symphony Orchestra
Franz Lachner

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Composer Biography

Lachner was a multi-instrumentalist, playing violin, cello, double bass, horn, and organ, and made ends meet as a substitute musician in Munich.

Compositional Technique

Lachner's prize-winning Symphony No. 5 is an hour long with "Brucknerian dimensions," using large thematic blocks and repetition techniques instead of Beethoven's thematic development.

Composer Biography

Franz Lachner, the composer, was born into a very musical family; two of his sisters and three of his brothers also became successful musicians.

Composition History

Lachner's Symphony No. 5, the Sinfonia passionata, was the winner of a highly publicized competition in Vienna in 1835, offering 50 ducats in gold for the best new symphony.

Critical Reception

Lachner's Sinfonia passionata sparked a major press feud in the German-speaking world, with critics north of the Main River tending to reject it and those south of the Main tending to praise it.