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A Faust Symphony in three character pictures (German: Eine Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterbildern), S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", is a choral symphony written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama, Faust. The symphony was premiered in Weimar on 5 September 1857, for the inauguration of the Goethe–Schiller Monument there.

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Faust Symphony

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A Faust Symphony in three character pictures (German: Eine Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterbildern), S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", is a choral...

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Faust

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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet...

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Johann Georg Faust

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closet drama Faust (1808), Hector Berlioz's musical composition La damnation de Faust (premiered 1846), and Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony of 1857. Because...

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Augmented triad

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5). An earlier example may be found at the opening of Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony, where a sequence of augmented triads unfolds as arpeggios: However...

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Dante Symphony

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and Faust symphonies are often recorded together. In October 1856, Liszt visited Richard Wagner in Zürich and performed his Faust and Dante symphonies on...

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La damnation de Faust

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La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra...

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Franz Liszt

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Juliette and part of La damnation de Faust, later dedicated to Liszt (in return, Liszt dedicated his Faust Symphony to Berlioz). The orchestration of Berlioz...

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Works based on Faust

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33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847) Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853) Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854–57) and Mephisto...

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Faust Overture

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and 1840, Wagner intended it to be the first movement of a Faust Symphony based on the Faust legend and play by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

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List of choral symphonies

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(also called Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major), Op. 52, by Felix Mendelssohn (1840) Faust Symphony, by Franz Liszt (1854) Dante Symphony, by Franz Liszt...

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Hexatonic scale

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one of its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (Eine Faust Symphonie). Another famous use of the augmented scale (in jazz)...

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Tone row

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Beethoven". Franz Liszt used a twelve-tone row in the opening of his Faust Symphony. Hans Keller claims that Schoenberg was aware of this serial practice...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Beethoven declared that a "Faust" Symphony would be the greatest thing for art. Liszt and Mahler both created symphonies in whole or in large part inspired...

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List of compositions by Richard Wagner

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orchestral Eine Faust-Ouvertüre (1855, second version; 1840, first version originally conceived as the first movement to a Faust Symphony) 13 orchestral...

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Joachim Raff

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alongside the Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz, Liszt's Faust Symphony and the Manfred Symphony of Tchaikovsky". Richard Strauss was a pupil of Hans von...

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List of program music

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Ideale based on a work by Friedrich von Schiller Faust Symphony, after the epic work by Goethe Dante Symphony, after Dante's Divine Comedy The Hope (2001)...

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Choral symphony

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choral symphonies of Franz Liszt. Both the Faust and Dante symphonies were conceived as purely instrumental works and only later became choral symphonies. However...

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29th Annual Grammy Awards

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Haas (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Liszt: A Faust Symphony Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance André Previn...

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Thematic transformation

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Fragmentation (music) Faust Symphony Piano Sonata (Liszt) Symphonic Poems (Liszt) Cooper, Martin, ed. Gerald Abraham, "The Symphonies", Music of Tchaikovsky...

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List of awards received by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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conductor (London) 1986 Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony – Sir Georg Solti, conductor (London) 1987 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 – Sir...

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War of the Romantics

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editions, the first six of Liszt's symphonic poems were published and the Faust Symphony premiered under Liszt's baton. Hanslick revised his text to mention...

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