Movements I and IV feature powerful, heroic themes; the scherzo is as expected, playful and colorful. (The last movement also highlights wind instruments). Enjoyed this symphony greatly ! Also love the architectural painting!
Another of many examples being put up on UA-cam of how perceptions of what is great misses a bunch of stuff that is great. I have been listening to classical music since the old 78 record days. I enjoyed listening to this as much most I have heard. Yeah, I have my favorites, but this work was just fine.
I find it very interesting that the third movement scherzo theme is identical to the theme of NPR's All Things Considered. Someone (I forget who) is credited with composing the theme in the '70s and it's hard to believe that he took it from this Lange symphony which had not been recorded yet. I suspect the theme has a folk music origin.
+Fred Coleman Or maybe he did use it exactly because it had not been recorded. He sure sign the composer had fallen into oblivion, making copying less obvious. He could have found the score in a music library. I am not saying it happened that way, just that for a musician/composer scores, not recordings are often a very useful source of inspiration (or copying).
I would also guess it may have a folk music origin, because the exact same sequence of notes also begins the first theme in the first movement of Louise Farrenc's Piano Quintet No. 2, composed in 1840.
the theme also appears in Franz Danzi's Bassoon Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, 2nd movement, andante con moto AND Carl Maria von Weber's 6 Pieces for Piano, 4 Hands, No. 4, Andante con variazion. If anything, the theme used in these two works is even more pronounced than in the Farrenc work - much as it is in the de Lange symphony. [You can find them both on You Tube].
@@andrewhcit I think all this strengthens a good deal the case for the theme having a folk music origin. How possibly could 4 composers come up with the same identical theme unless there was some underlying identical origin.
This lovely exemplar of mid-19th century Romanticism bears a lot of similarity to Meneer De Lange's fellow Lowlander Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor.
The last movement was riveting and rousing. I would have liked to hear this in a concert hall in the Netherlands during the Nazi onslaught. The Dutch would have exploded in patriotic fervor and exult in their proud resistance to Evil despite consequences.
+Kees Klaver Unfortunately concert promoters prefer to play safe and programme what they know people will like. It would be good though if major orchestras had even one concert a year where they would play unknown music such as this.
Trouens, daar is 'n hele reeks wonderlike Nederlandse komponiste. (Vgl. Unsung Composers). Ek dink byvoorbeeld aan Andriessen en Brandts Buys as nog twee goeie voorbeelde.
Edvard Grieg (Norway) has also written one unknown symphony in c minor (1864), and has said to it: "Must never be performed", because he didn't believe in it. I find the composition of Grieg much and much better. This here I find primitiv, trivial and boring.
I give you two out of three: primitive and trivial, YES, but boring, NO. It's quite interesting to hear a piece of music such as this. It's hardly a masterpiece, but neither is it a bad piece of music. There are some vague hints of early Wagner in his music, and, maybe also some french influences ( perhaps from Berlioz). While Brahms and Wagner (and others) had to fight their way onto the podium with their new music, my guess is that this guy just got his music played without too much effort.
@@paskhare1 Since 1979 i am living in Switzerland, and I am a musicien. And now, even in youtube, I clearly noticed, that Holland hardly has had a history of music. From Dufay until Palestrina their music is franco-flemisch or italian, but not dutch. Only Sweelinck (17th century). And Dutch people are very good in one thing: to seem a lot, but to be only little.
Movements I and IV feature powerful, heroic themes; the scherzo is as expected, playful and colorful. (The last movement also highlights wind instruments). Enjoyed this symphony greatly ! Also love the architectural painting!
Another of many examples being put up on UA-cam of how perceptions of what is great misses a bunch of stuff that is great. I have been listening to classical music since the old 78 record days. I enjoyed listening to this as much most I have heard. Yeah, I have my favorites, but this work was just fine.
Thanks for putting it up. Totally new to me. I've been listening to classical stations for 60 years.
Nothing wrong with this piece, composed in traditional symphonic style with good development and careful orchestration. I like it.
20:12 "This is All Things Considered. I'm Audie Cornish. And I'm Mary-Louise Kelly."
Che bella sinfonia,colpevolmente ineseguita.Ottima l'esecuzione.
Beautiful music; never heard in the Dutch concerthalls. Thanks for posting!
I find it very interesting that the third movement scherzo theme is identical to the theme of NPR's All Things Considered. Someone (I forget who) is credited with composing the theme in the '70s and it's hard to believe that he took it from this Lange symphony which had not been recorded yet. I suspect the theme has a folk music origin.
+Fred Coleman Or maybe he did use it exactly because it had not been recorded. He sure sign the composer had fallen into oblivion, making copying less obvious. He could have found the score in a music library. I am not saying it happened that way, just that for a musician/composer scores, not recordings are often a very useful source of inspiration (or copying).
I would also guess it may have a folk music origin, because the exact same sequence of notes also begins the first theme in the first movement of Louise Farrenc's Piano Quintet No. 2, composed in 1840.
the theme also appears in Franz Danzi's Bassoon Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, 2nd movement, andante con moto AND Carl Maria von Weber's 6 Pieces for Piano, 4 Hands, No. 4, Andante con variazion. If anything, the theme used in these two works is even more pronounced than in the Farrenc work - much as it is in the de Lange symphony. [You can find them both on You Tube].
@@andrewhcit I think all this strengthens a good deal the case for the theme having a folk music origin. How possibly could 4 composers come up with the same identical theme unless there was some underlying identical origin.
The Second Movement's main melody shares a similarity with the tune to the hymn, "Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All"
Picture: Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove - Gezicht op het Oude Vrouwen- en Kinderhuis aan het Zieken
Thank you for sharing this beautiful music !
This lovely exemplar of mid-19th century Romanticism bears a lot of similarity to Meneer De Lange's fellow Lowlander Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor.
I see a few of the comments and it seems to me they are experts! Why not just kick back and listen to this glorious symphony?
Splendid stuff.
A Theosophist no less. Another gem.
Magnifique !
Excellent
GOOD AND STERIL MUSIC IN CLASSIC STILE. rUTHER HARMONICAL. GLAD TO MEET THIS MUSIC. I THINK THAT THIS COMPOSER LIKE F. SHUBERT VERY MUCH. A.B.
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The last movement was riveting and rousing. I would have liked to hear this in a concert hall in the Netherlands during the Nazi onslaught. The Dutch would have exploded in patriotic fervor and exult in their proud resistance to Evil despite consequences.
I doubt it, but it's a nice thought ;)
Doubtful but a good idea for Hollywood.
Wat een prachtige muziek! Waarom wordt dit nooit geprogrammeerd door de Nederlandse orkesten?
+Kees Klaver Unfortunately concert promoters prefer to play safe and programme what they know people will like. It would be good though if major orchestras had even one concert a year where they would play unknown music such as this.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Alen Planec
Trouens, daar is 'n hele reeks wonderlike Nederlandse komponiste. (Vgl. Unsung Composers). Ek dink byvoorbeeld aan Andriessen en Brandts Buys as nog twee goeie voorbeelde.
Interesting composer. Daniel de Lange seems somewhat reminiscent of Tchaikovsky, especially the early Tchaikovsky symphonies.
Tchaikovsky wrote his symphonies later, didn't he ?
@@jeanpaulchoppart6818 Yes. No comparison!
Probably vice-versa.
Tchaikovsky has reminiscences of Daniël de Lange.
Name of the picture?
Early Beethoven much
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Another one of poor attempts of "Willing Beethoven-powered Schubert's" symphonies. Boring.
Edvard Grieg (Norway) has also written one unknown symphony in c minor (1864), and has said to it: "Must never be performed", because he didn't believe in it.
I find the composition of Grieg much and much better. This here I find primitiv, trivial and boring.
I give you two out of three: primitive and trivial, YES, but boring, NO. It's quite interesting to hear a piece of music such as this. It's hardly a masterpiece, but neither is it a bad piece of music. There are some vague hints of early Wagner in his music, and, maybe also some french influences ( perhaps from Berlioz). While Brahms and Wagner (and others) had to fight their way onto the podium with their new music, my guess is that this guy just got his music played without too much effort.
@@paskhare1 Since 1979 i am living in Switzerland, and I am a musicien. And now, even in youtube, I clearly noticed, that Holland hardly has had a history of music. From Dufay until Palestrina their music is franco-flemisch or italian, but not dutch. Only Sweelinck (17th century). And Dutch people are very good in one thing: to seem a lot, but to be only little.