Symphony in major B flat of Slipper

The symphony in major B flat op.20 of Ernest Slipper, the only one of the type-setter (it began of them another in 1899, the year of its death, which thus remained with the state of drafts), was written between September 1889 and December 1890.

Dedicated to the painter Henri Lerolle, his brother-in-law, it is in three movements like the majority of the Symphonie S Frenchwomen of time:

I. Slow - Allegro vivo
II. Very slow
III. Animated

Slipper was a not very prolix type-setter, the whole of its work comprising only 39 numbers of opus. Its orchestral partitions are rare and he had then written only one symphonic poem of youth Viviane and his Poème of the love and the sea which he began in 1882 and which he completes only two after his Symphonie.

This one is located at cross influences of César Franck, which was professor de Chausson, and of Wagner, in a Germanic tradition of orchestration and chromatism, but what illuminates a particular lyricism. It is also located in the French symphonic revival of the years 1880 (with, in addition to Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edouard Lalo, Albéric Magnard and Vincent d' Indy). It opens on slow and sinks introduction, which seems to evoke dark and forgotten ages, which goes up in irresistible crescendo leading to a finally luminous and enjouée part. Lyricism returns in the second movement, moving and full with a noble pain, but nevertheless of difficult execution for the orchestra, at the point to frighten the Leader Edouard Colonne. The last movement makes hear powerful reasons, like a walk with the war, and by taking again the cyclic process developed by Franck proceeds to the recall of the preceding topics of the symphony; almost at the same time, Bruckner made the same thing in its Eighth symphony .

The symphony was created under the direction of the type-setter on April 18th 1891 in the Erard room. Initially accommodated with a relative success, she knew a triumph when Arthur Nikisch directed it in 1897 with the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin to Paris, and since became a work impossible to circumvent of the French symphonic music, which crossed in these years a 1880-1890 rich person period.

Its execution takes approximately a little more than one half an hour.

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