Symphony No. 4
by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Orchestra - Sheet Music

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Ensembles
Orchestra
Genres
20th Century
Classical
Composers
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Publishers
Fennica Gehrman
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Score
Item Types
Physical
Musical Forms
Symphony
Usages
School and Community
Orchestra

SKU: FG.042-07974-4

Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-07974-4).

ISBN 979-0-042-07974-4.

In his Fourth Symphony (Arabescata, 1962) Rautavaara wanted to take to its furthest limits everything he could extract from the constructivism of the Central European avant-garde. The first and third movements are totally serial and the second movement consists of five sections, played without a break, the starting point of each being a graphic image drawn on millimetre graph paper. Rautavaara did not initially call Arabescata a symphony as, in the heyday of modernism, the symphony form was considered to have had its day. But later he revised the work and incorporated it into the cycle as his Fourth Symphony.