Word: crescendo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...orchestra does not seem to have suffered from the changes which have been made in it. Some roughness was perceptible in the playing, but this was probably due to the unaccustomed nearness of the listener. The "Faust" overture was very finely played, all the crescendo's and the principal climax being well worked up. The symphony, the work of a young Viennese, of not much experience in orchestral writing, is a truly musicianly and interesting composition. Although not sketched in the broad proportions we find in Beethoven and Schumann, it has the true symphonic character. Of the four movements...