Chamber Symphony (Schreker)
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The Chamber Symphony is an instrumental work by Austrian composer Franz Schreker. It was composed in 1916 for the centenary of the Vienna Music Academy where Schreker had been teaching since 1912.[1] The musical material is partly derived from an abandoned opera project entitled Die tönenden Sphären for which Schreker wrote the libretto and part of the music in 1915.[2]
The work has a double-function form, which compresses the four movements of a traditional symphony into a single larger one, after the example of Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1.[1]
The work lasts approximately 25 minutes in performance.
