Research often leads to new questions. This month, Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett takes us through new questions and possible answers from her summer research into Copland's Prelude for Piano Trio.
Read more- Title
- Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
- For
- organ and orchestra
- Alternate Title
- Organ Symphony (Alternate/Synonymous)
- Year Composed
- 1924
- Scoring
- 2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(4):xyl/cyms/wdbl/BD/SD/ tamb-2(1)harps-cel(ad lib)-strings
- ARCO Number(s)
- 7
- Category
- Orchestral
- Duration
- 25'
- Movements
- I. Prelude
- Arrangement: Prelude (arr. piano trio) (1921–25) for violin, cello, and piano
- II. Scherzo
- III. Finale
- I. Prelude
- Premiere
- World: New York, NY, January 11th, 1925 (Nadia Boulanger, New York Symphony Orchestra, cond. Walter Damrosch)
- Dedication
- To Nadia Boulanger -- with admiration, A.C.
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published
- Versions
- First Symphony (1926–28) (Arrangement)
- Disambiguation
Buying Options
Boosey & HawkesExternal Links
Program Note
Koussevitzky became music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra just as Copland was returning from France to America in 1924. He asked Copland to compose a large orchestral work with organ for Boulanger to play with Walter Damrosch in New York and with him in Boston. "I had never heard a note of my own orchestration," exclaimed Copland, "but Nadia and Koussevitzky both said, 'You can do it! I will never forget the thrill of the glorious sound of the orchestra playing my own music for the first time."
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998
