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- Kurt Weill
Symphony No. 2 (1934)
(Fantaisie Symphonique)- Heugel (World excluding Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Eastern Europe and British Empire except Canada)
Critical Edition edited by James Holmes
- 2222/2220/timp.perc/str
- 25 min
- 28th February 2026, NeidorffKarpati Hall, New York, NY, United States of America
- 5th March 2026, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
Programme Note
Yannick Nézet-Séguin discusses programming Weill's Symphony No. 2 on a Philadelphia Orchestra concert:
Kurt Weill composed Symphony No. 2 in 1933-34 on a commission from the Princesse de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer, an heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and an arts patron). The Concertgebouw premiered it in Amsterdam in October 1934 under the baton of Bruno Walter. Walter gave the US premiere with the New York Philharmonic two months later. The symphony has become a familiar face in the twentieth-century symphonic line-up.
In 2000, David Schiff remarked in Atlantic Monthly that it "sums up the musical revolution that Weill had begun as an enfant terrible in the mid-twenties."
The symphony is in three movements:
I. Sostenuto - Allegro molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro vivace - Presto
Additional information at the Kurt Weill Foundation
