First Symphonies

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The writer looks at the first symphonies of each of the composers Edward Elgar and Rimsky Korsakov. The writer discusses that similar tools are used by both of the composers, but each creates very different works. The writer notes that although Elgar's music is distinct in many ways from that of Rimsky Korsakov, the two are bound by the lyricism of their works and by their desire to create music that reflected in a profound way their very different homelands.

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"Edward Elgar and Rimsky Korsakov both created symphonies that were lyrical and lovely and each of which expressed modern musical motifs in very different ways This paper examines the first symphony of each composer examining the ways in which these two near contemporaries used similar tools and rules of composition to create works that are strikingly different from one another. While Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov would write his First Symphony well within the conventions of the classical symphony, Elgar writing later and with English rather than Continental musical influences at ..."

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