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An Alpine Symphony
''An Alpine Symphony'' (''Eine Alpensinfonie''), Op. 64, is a tone poem written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915. Though labelled as a symphony by the composer, this piece forgoes the conventions of the traditional multi-movement symphony and consists of twenty-two continuous sections of music.〔Gordon Kalton Williams, "Richard Strauss: 'An Alpine Symphony', Op. 64", ''Sydney Symphony Online''; available from http://www.sydneysymphony.com/sysfiles/attachements/PROG17_080530_Jupiter-Alpine_SSO_REV.pdf; Internet, accessed 4 March 2009.〕 The story of ''An Alpine Symphony'' depicts the experiences of eleven hours (from daybreak just before dawn to the following nightfall) spent climbing an Alpine mountain. ''An Alpine Symphony'' is one of Strauss's largest non-operatic works in terms of performing forces: the score calls for about 125 players in total.〔Richard Strauss, ''Eine Alpensinfonie and Symphonia Domestica'', Dover 0-486-27725-9 (New York: Dover Publications, 1993).〕 A typical performance usually lasts around 50 minutes.
This piece was the last tone poem written by Strauss, a genre which gained the composer popularity in the late 1880s and 1890s with works such as ''Don Juan'' (1888), ''Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks'' (1895), ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' (1896), ''Don Quixote'' (1897), and ''A Hero's Life'' (1897–98).〔Daniel Gregroy Mason, "A Study of Strauss", ''The Musical Quarterly'' 2, no. 2 (April 1916): 171.〕 By the time of ''An Alpine Symphony's'' composition, however, Strauss had turned his attention away from the genre of tone poems and had become well-established as one of the period's greatest operatic composers.
Though one of Strauss's lesser-performed works (for a number of reasons, including the great number of musicians required),〔Norman Del Mar, ''Richard Strauss: A critical commentary on his life and works'', Vol. 2 (Ithaca: Cornell, 1969), 123.〕 the piece is popular enough that in 1981 a recording of ''An Alpine Symphony'' made with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic became one of the first compact discs to be pressed.〔"How the CD was developed", ''BBC News'' (online ), available from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6950933.stm; Internet, accessed 3 March 2009.〕
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