Symphony No. 1 (Albert)

Symphony No. 1 RiverRun is an orchestral symphony in four movements by the American composer Stephen Albert. The piece was completed in 1983 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1985.^[1]^[2]^[3] The title comes from the novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, whose literature served as inspiration for the work.^[4]^[5]

v t e Stephen Albert
Music	Symphony No. 1 (1983) Cello Concerto (1990) Symphony No. 2 (completed by Sebastian Currier, 1992)
Related	Still Movement with Hymn Symphony No. 2 (Rouse)
Category

v t e James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)
Inspirations	Achmet Borumborad "Finnegan's Wake" The New Science The House by the Churchyard
Inclusions	"The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly" Bellsybabble Quark
Books	Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929) A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) Joysprick (1973)
Music	The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) Bitter Ending (1972) Roaratorio (1979) Symphony No. 1 RiverRun (1983) Nowth upon Nacht (1984) Waywords and Meansigns (2015)

Reception

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Music (1981–1990)
n.a. ('81) Roger Sessions ('82): Concerto for Orchestra Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ('83): Symphony No. 1 Bernard Rands ('84): Canti del Sole Stephen Albert ('85): Symphony No. 1 George Perle ('86): Wind Quintet No. 4 John Harbison ('87): The Flight into Egypt William Bolcom ('88): Twelve New Etudes for Piano Roger Reynolds ('89): Whispers Out of Time Mel Powell ('90): Duplicates: A Concerto
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