Contemporary contexts influence creation in the arts much more than the more analytic exertions of the mind. In 1896 Bruckner had died, and the death of Brahms came in the following year. Among the younger generation of composers, Richard Strauss, who was to outlive them all, had completed his series of symphonic poems, while Hugo Wolf, near to his final madness, had quarrelled with Mahler over the merits of Rubinsteins opera The Demon, and unilaterally declared himself director of the Vienna Opera. This was the Vienna of which Zemlinsky was a part, and in which the Symphony in B flat major was written. So? So, it seems to me this Symphony No.2 , though in the late romantic period is not of it. If I did not know the year, I would place it around 1920.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:16:29 +0000
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