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Aulis Sallinen : Symphony No. 7 (The Dreams of Gandalf)

commissioned by the Göteborgs Symfoniker
Publisher Novello & Co Ltd
Category
 Orchestra
Sub-Category Large Orchestra
Year Composed
 1996
Duration 25 Minutes
Orchestration
 3(pic)33(bcl)3(cbn)/4331/timp.3perc/hp.cel/str
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Full Score(s):  NOV890195

Programme Note

The Seventh Symphony is related to J R R Tolkien's great novel " The Lord of the Rings". The symphony does not actually depict the events in the novel; rather it documents the reading experience and transfers the literary atmosphere and poetry into a musical expression.

"The Lord of the Rings" is a unique literary phenomenon: an entire mythology created by a single person.

Elements have crept into the musical content from other sources as well: for instance from the Provencal one-man flute-and-drum galoubet-tambourin music and two melodies from the medieval Finnish song collection Piae Cantiones.

The symphony was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and composed in 1995-6.

© Aulis Sallinen

Reviews

  • …one never gets bored listening to the music with its many interesting harmonic combinations and unexpected fancies. Sallinen has created an appreciable and suggestive score from the fragments of a Tolkien ballet.
    Lars Hedblab, Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), 01/11/1996

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