Symphony No. 2
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Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), Op. 52 (MWV A 18), is an 11-movement "Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra" by Felix Mendelssohn. After the composer's death it was published as his Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, a naming and a numbering that are not his. The required soloists are two sopranos and a tenor. The work lasts almost twice as long as any of Mendelssohn's purely instrumental symphonies. It is the second ever symphony by a major composer to include a chorus following Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Key facts
- Musical composition.name
- Lobgesang
- Musical composition.type
- Choral symphony
- Musical composition.composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Musical composition.image
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Eduard Magnus (1833).jpg
- Musical composition.image_upright
- 1.1
- Musical composition.caption
- Mendelssohn in 1846
- Musical composition.other_name
- Symphony No. 2
- Musical composition.translation
- Hymn of Praise
- Musical composition.key
- B-flat major
- Musical composition.catalogue
- MWV A 18
- Musical composition.opus
- 52
- Musical composition.occasion
- 400th anniversary of printing
- Musical composition.text
- Psalms, other biblical verses, "Nun danket alle Gott"
- Musical composition.language
- German
- Musical composition.movements
- 10
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9 sectionsContents
- History
- Structure
- Instrumentation
- Text
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), Op. 52 (MWV A 18), is an 11-movement "Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra" by Felix Mendelssohn. After the composer's death it was published as his Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, a naming and a numbering that are not his. The required soloists are two sopranos and a tenor. The work lasts almost twice as long as any of Mendelssohn's purely instrumental symphonies. It is the second ever symphony by a major composer to include a chorus following Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
==History== It was composed in 1840, along with the less-known Festgesang "Gutenberg Cantata", to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of Johannes Gutenberg's movable type printing system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Symphony No. 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.