Question
Answer the following about C minor symphonies that, like Beethoven’s fifth, end in a major key, for 10 points each.
[10m] This symphony’s composer remarked that “any donkey” could see the similarity between the C major theme of its finale and the “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth. This symphony’s perfectionist composer spent 21 years writing it, premiering it in 1876.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor [or Brahms’s First Symphony; accept Brahms’s Opus 68]
[10e] A choral finale in E-flat major, rather than C major, ends this composer’s second symphony, “Resurrection.” The Adagietto of this composer’s fifth symphony is often described as a love letter to his wife Alma.
ANSWER: Gustav Mahler
[10h] This C minor symphony ends with a grand C major coda that ties themes from the rest of the symphony, followed by “blazing calm.” Sergiu Celibidache (“CHELL-ee-bee-DOCK-eh”) conducted a 103-minute recording of this penultimate symphony with the Munich Philharmonic.
ANSWER: Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 [or Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony]
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