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The Fourth Symphony of the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann is a work for string orchestra. It was completed in 1946-7.

It was derived in part from an earlier Concerto for strings and soprano written in 1938. Hartmann revised the work to include a new purely instrumental third and closing movement, marked Adagio appassionato. The second movement, Adagio di molto, risoluto, contains several references to Hartmann's own First String Quartet of 1933. A typical performance lasts around 33 minutes.

The work was premiered in this form by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hans Rosbaud in Munich on 2 April 1948, chronologically before the premiere of his Third Symphony.

References

1. Jaschinski, A. (1999) Hartmann: Symphonies 1-8, liner notes to EMI 5 56911 2
2. "4. Symphonie". schott-music.com.
3. Rickards, Guy (1995). Hindemith, Hartmann and Henze. Phaidon. ISBN 9780714831749.

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