This symphony's "Largo" third movement features no brass and surprisingly calls for the violins to be divided into three sections. The composer was inspired by the opening of Mahler's Fourth Symphony for the first four measures of this work, which sets up a sharply dotted rhythm of repeated As playing against a melody on the first violins. The fina
This symphony's "Largo" third movement features no brass and surprisingly calls for the violins to be divided into three sections. The composer was inspired by the opening of Mahler's Fourth Symphony for the first four measures of this work, which sets up a sharply dotted rhythm of repeated As playing against a melody on the first violins. The finale movement quotes from the composer's setting of the Pushkin poem "Rebirth" and is dubbed a "forced rejoicing" in the autobiography Testimony. This symphony was after the scandal surrounding the composer's earlier opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District. Subtitled "A Soviet Artist's Response to Justified Criticism", for 10 points, name this symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich.
This symphony's "Largo" third movement features no brass and surprisingly calls for the violins to be divided into three sections.
Symphony No. 5 in D-major [accept A Soviet Artist's Response to Justified Criticism before it is read]