Joseph Lauber
Symphonie No. 1

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en Mi bémol majeur for symphony orchestra

Duration: 36'
Genre: romantic
Series: Swiss Composers Series
Composed: 1895

Reference: ORCH101b
Orchestra score

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Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2. - 3.2.3.0. - timpani - strings
Published: 2024
Pages: 134
Publisher: Editions Bim
Movements:
- 1. Andante - Allegro (10')
- 2. Andante espressivo (10')
- 3. Scherzo (4'30)
- 4. Introduzione maestoso - Allegro non troppo (12')

1. Andante - Allegro

2. Andante espressivo

3. Scherzo

4. Introduzione - Allegro non troppo

Joseph Lauber (1864-1952)

Joseph Lauber was born in 1864 in Ruswil, Lucerne, the son of a humble tailor. Just one year after his birth, the family was compelled to relocate to Le Locle, in the canton of Neuchâtel. Since Jos... Read more

About Symphonie No. 1

Joseph Lauber's symphonies

Joseph Lauber bridged the cultural gap between the Swiss German and Swiss Romand regions, his artistic background influenced by late German Romanticism in Munich and the early days of Impressionism in Paris. Additionally, he possessed a strong Alpine folkloric essence. His First Symphony, after a sublime E-flat major chord, commences with an Alpine horn call that seems to carry on from Brahms’ First Symphony finale.

In a short span (1895-96), he composed the First, Second, and Third Symphonies in Plan-sur-Bex. These were followed by the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies in 1913 and 1918, significantly more extensive and impressionistic in nature. The Sixth Symphony, undated but recorded by the OSR under the baton of Ernest Ansermet in 1952, exhibits a classical style and is composed for a smaller orchestra.