Sentence examples for write a symphony from inspiring English sources

"It's essentially an attempt to write a symphony".

In 1782, Mozart was commissioned to write a symphony celebrating the siege of Gibraltar.

In 1832, at 22, he struggled to write a Symphony in G minor inspired by Beethoven's "Eroica," and finished only the first movement.

"Mine is a view that — well, it takes a village to write a symphony and get it performed," Becker goes on.

How could you write a symphony that seemed, if anything, to retreat in musical time to an era before tonality, a symphony of weird modes and ambiguous scales?

There is a story – possibly apocryphal – that towards the end of the composer's life, a young student asked his advice on how to write a symphony.

In a musical sense, I wasn't writing a symphony.

"I was thinking of writing a symphony to prove it".

This is, after all, a composer who wrote a symphony for 400 electric guitars.

Bruch wrote a symphony at age 14 and won a scholarship enabling him to study at Cologne.

In 1979, he wrote a symphony based on a fourth-century Chinese lament.