Menachem Zur
Symphony No. 2 “Letters”
for symphony orchestra
Author :
Menachem Zur (Composer)
Catalog Number : 8919
Year of writing : 1988-1994
Duration : 34 minutes
Chapters :
- A Letter to Schoenberg
- A Letter to Stravinsky
- A Letter to Alban Berg
Orchestration : 3/picc,3/e-hn,3/b-cl,3/d-bn - 4,3,3,1, timp, perc(3), hp, pno/celes & str
About the creation
The main idea of this symphony was to create three pieces that may be performed independently of each other, but which have an internal logic that binds them together as one symphony.
The references to past composers indicate homage to them through relationships to compositional processes rather than using direct quotations.