Symphony No. 1 (Enescu)

Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 in E♭ by the Romanian composer George Enescu reflects the composer's training in both Vienna and Paris. In the former location he studied the Brahmsian tradition with Robert Fuchs, and in the latter the French tradition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré (Botstein n.d.).

The symphony falls into three movements:

The first movement is dominated by the three component motives of the first theme, announced in unison at the beginning (Voicana et al. 1971, 1:306).

The Symphony was premiered on Sunday, 21 January 1906 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on the fourteenth concert of the 1905–06 series of the Concerts Colonne, conducted by Édouard Colonne (Voicana et al. 1971, 1:311–12). It was published by Enoch et co., Paris, in 1906.

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