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

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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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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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