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''A Colour Symphony'', Op. 24, F. 106, was written by Arthur Bliss in 1921–22. It was his first major work for orchestra〔 and remains one of his best known. Bliss wrote it under the supervision of his teacher, Ralph Vaughan Williams.〔 ==History==
''A Colour Symphony'' was written to be performed at the Three Choirs Festival, held in 1922 in Gloucester, at the invitation of Sir Edward Elgar, who also invited Herbert Howells and Eugene Goossens to write a piece each.〔(Bliss: Colour Symphony )〕 Howells wrote ''Sine Nomine'' for wordless chorus,〔(Music Web International: British Choral Music )〕 which was not given its second performance until his centenary year 70 years later, in 1992.〔(Romanticism in Retrospect )〕 Goossens wrote a piece called ''Silence'' for chorus and orchestra.〔 Elgar's own contribution was his orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's ''Fantasia and Fugue in C minor''. Bliss decided to write a symphony, but was at first undecided what the theme or character of the work would be. He could not get started for some weeks. One day, by chance, he came across a book on heraldry in which he read of the symbolic meanings attached to certain colours; this gave him the notion of writing a work about colours. He attempted to give each movement a character corresponding to these meanings, but without attempting to depict the colours themselves.〔(The eMusic Dozen: British Composers )〕 Bliss dedicated the symphony to the conductor Adrian Boult.〔 The first performance, with the London Symphony Orchestra, in Gloucester Cathedral on 7 September 1922, was conducted by the composer. It was not well received at first, due to poor preparation. The work uses a large orchestra, but the platform was so taken up with the chorus required for other works also being performed, that several instruments had to be omitted.〔(Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers )〕 Elgar attended, but found it "disconcertingly modern".〔(Classical Archives )〕 It nevertheless entered the repertoire and has been recorded various times, although it is now an infrequent visitor to concert platforms.
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