• 2(pic).2.2(bcl).2/4(2 offstage).1+2pictpt(offstage).2(1 offstage)+btbn(offstage).1/timp.perc/str
  • 5 min

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It is a short, lyrical, and introspective piece, involving the orchestra and some offstage players. The onstage orchestra plays a long choral-like passage, answered by short fanfare elements. Later the offstage players take up these fanfare elements, and the ensemble builds to a peak before resolving into a gentle setting of Schubert’s masterly song An die Musik (hence the title of the work), form which all the earlier fanfare elements were taken.

--John Corigliano


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