THE ORCHESTRAL SYMPHONY
The number of Symphonies written by the old composers astonishes us in days when the Symphony lias come to be a 45 or 50 minutes’ work for full orchestra, with an immense amount of detail in the parts. Haydn, for example, wrote, 125, and Mozart, who died in his thirties, 49'. The reason is that their Symphonies—the earliest ex arnples of that form of music—were much shorter, in length than Beethoven’s “immortal nine,” which set a new standard of symphonic size, and shorter than most succeeding symphonies. Moreover, the nunVbcr and variety of the instruments employed in a symphony are now much greater than in the Haydn and Mozart days.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 4
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