Josef Bohuslav Foerster - Symphony No.3 in D-major, Op.36 "Život" (1895)

Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 - 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer of classical music and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster.
Work: Symphony No.3 in D-major, Op.36 "Život" (1894 - 95)
Mov.I: Moderato - movimento doppio 00:00
Mov.II: Andante sostenuto 10:40
Mov.III: Allegro molto - l'istesso tempo ma tranquillo 19:31
Mov.IV: Finale: Allegro moderato 28:02
Orchestra: Prague Radio Orchestra
Conductor: Ondrej Kukal
Radio broadcast from 1996.

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[@axlblack8729]

"Život" means life in serbian

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Život means life in czeck language

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The tempo of the finale is Allegro moderato.

[@LotteStarck]

Does this composer, Josef Bohuslav Foerster (or any other classical composer) decide in advance, which 'key' the composition is going to be written in? How is it decided and can a conductor interpret the same composition in another 'key'?

[@nightjaronthegate]

Playing the symphony in a different key would change how it sounds and would create a lot of unnecessary difficulties. The whole score would have to be transposed and reprinted, and orchestration would have to be changed where the music had been moved out of an instrument's range. It doesn't happen. The key is generally decided very early in the process of composition, but asking how the composer makes that decision is a bit like asking how he decides which notes to write. Things he may consider include which keys particularly suit the instruments being used and his ideas about the character of different keys. Beethoven's Symphony No 3, known as the Eroica (Heroic) is in Eb major because he thought that key (and its relative minor key, C minor) was good for the mood of the music and because it suited the horns, which have an important role and, having no valves at that time, could not play some notes.

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Försters tredjers symfoni.... (A Swedish joke on the composer's name and the title on his work)

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