Angel of Light (Symphony No. 7) : large score — Conductor-size deluxe score

Rautavaara, Einojuhani
Title: Angel of Light (Symphony No. 7) : large score — Conductor-size deluxe score
Authors: Rautavaara, Einojuhani (Composer)
Product number: 9790550114449
Product form: Sheet music
Availability: Delivery in 3-7 days
Price: 68,50 € (62,27 € vat 0 %)

Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Edition: 2019
Publication year: 2019
Language: Finnish
Pages: 109
Product family: Frontpage
Orchestral & stage works
Orchestra
About us
Finnish library classification: 78.541 Sinfoniat
Key words: Angel of light, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Sinfoniat
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music and choral works.

Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism, combining modernism with mystical romanticism in his later works. According to the composer, the role of the composer is to be mediator, a midwife, who helps the music become alive on its own terms; “Listen to what the music wants to tell you”, he told his composition students, “sense where it wants to go”.

Rautavaara rose to great international fame with the success of his Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light (1995) powered by the prize-winning recording (Helsinki Philharmonic, Segerstam, Ondine label) later the same year. Many high-profile international commissions followed, creating yet more prize-winning recordings.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the work's premiere - in its original form as the Bloomington Symphony - by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Pickett, Fennica Gehrman is publishing an entirely new edition of the symphony based on all available sources, including the composer's manuscript and his markings in various printed scores.

This is a large-sized conductor score with extensive analysis of the work and its genesis.

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