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Faust symphonies

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« on: May 21, 2009, 10:18:51 am »

For me Faust has come up twice in a musical connection over the past two days. Firstly in a reference in Grove's Dictionary to Henze's "Chorus of the Imprisoned Trojans," which dates from a year or two after 1945, and sets for chorus and orchestra a text drawn from the Third Act of the Second Part of Goethe's Faust. I do not know whether it was written before the composer's studies with Fortner Rufer and Leibowitz or after.

And secondly in Ronald Stevenson's recording of his own "Prelude Fugue and Fantasy on themes from Busoni's 'Doktor Faust'." (Another item on the same disc is Grainger's "Rosenkavalier-Ramble." - It is all what is sometimes called "splashy music".)

Neither the Henze nor the Stevenson is well known - perhaps in fifty years' time they will both be entirely unknown! Is either of them known to members here?
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