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The composer's optimism is apparent in its festive opening, marked Lebhaft, or "lively." The second movement, labeled a Scherzo, is actually a Landler, and incorporates a regional wine song. The final movement also marked Lebhaft ends in a burst joyful of joyful E flat, but it is the penultimate movement, inspired by a scene the composer saw at a Cologne cathedral, that is the only reference to this work's title. FTP, name this work numbered as the third symphony of Robert Schumann, whose nickname derives from the river flowing through Cologne.
The composer's optimism is apparent in its festive opening, marked Lebhaft, or "lively.
{Rhenish} Symphony (accept early: {Schumann’s }{Symphony No. 3} in E Flat major or {Schumann’s }{Third Symphony})