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Mahler, Bruckner and Strauss
The late Romantic orchestra at its largest: Bruckner's and Mahler's symphonies and Strauss's tone poems, 1880 to 1945.
Bruckner → Mahler → Strauss
Don Juan, Op. 20
This guide follows Strauss’s Don Juan, Op. 20 (1889) in one part.
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The opening flourish and the hero's (Don Juan 1) as the thread of the piece (Don Juan 2 to Don Juan 5). The first love scene, the Countess, features a violin, and the Anna holds the long oboe love song. Short passages of refusal (Rejection 1 to Rejection 3) alternate with the love music. A carnival follows, then Memories. In the final section (Death / ) the music stops, a dissonant trumpet note marks the fatal stroke, and three quiet chords the work.
- + Don Juan 1
- Rejection 1
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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