Metamorphosen, TrV 290
This guide follows Strauss’s Metamorphosen, TrV 290 (1945) in one part.
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0:04–26:31
The piece begins slowly (A) with the opening chords, and among its themes is a figure of three short notes and a long one that recalls Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The middle part (B) is a series of five episodes. The lyrical fifth enters with the first of them, marked slightly flowing, and it brings the major- passages that alternate with sad ones. The slow opening music (A'). In the final pages the lower strings quote the Eroica .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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