Symphony No. 5 (Dvořák)
Dvořák composed his fifth symphony in the summer months in June and July 1875. The opus number is actually incorrect. The autograph was marked with number 24, but the publisher Simrock (ignoring the protests of the composer) gave this symphony a high number of 76. It is considered largely pastoral in style, similar to the sixth he wrote about five years later. The symphony was first performed four years after it was written, on March 25, 1879 at the Slav concert of the Academic Readers' Association in the Prague Žofín concert hall, conducted by Adolf Čech. It was published by Simrock in 1888 (also as a piano arrangement for four hands). The composition was revised in the autumn 1887.
The work consists of four movements:
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Andante con moto in A minor
- Andante con moto, quasi l'istesso tempo - Allegro scherzando in B-flat major
- Finale: Allegro molto
A typical performance of the work has a duration of about forty minutes.
The symphony is written for an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets with one doubling bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, triangle and strings.
- Score, p. IX
- Score, p. X
Dvořák, Antonín: Sinfonia V. Fa Maggiore. Op. 76. Score. Prague: Editio Supraphon, 1989. H 3001
- Symphony No. 5 on a comprehensive Dvorak site
- Basic information
- Symphony Nº. 5 Free Scores at the International Music Score Library Project.