jan 1, 1779 - Symphony 11 No. 1

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Recording: https://stolaf.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=886447262702

Composer: Joseph Bologne
Genre: Symphony

All three movements are in sonata form, focusing heavily on strings with lots of echoing and returning of themes. Bologne employs organicism with a lilting chromatic motive that shows up first in the development of movement I and returns later in III, with a few brief appearances in the second movement. This motivic continuity is rare for the period, and is indicative of the effect Bologne’s music had on the early stirrings of the Romantic period.

Mvt. 1
Lively and duple metered; type III sonata form (exposition, development, recaputlation)

Mvt. 2
Slow, melodic, and strings only; type I sonata form (exposition, recapitulation)

Mvt. 3
A quick, floksy tune in 6/8; type II sonata form (exposition, development, shifted around recapitulation)

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