Of the composer's two follow ups to this work, one was performed during a rugby match with England, and the other was left unnamed; together with them it is one of his three Mouvements Symphonique.
Of the composer's two follow ups to this work, one was performed during a rugby match with England, and the other was left unnamed; together with them it is one of his three Mouvements Symphonique. The melody only appears in full twice in this nearly seven-minute-long work, which was modeled after Bach's chorales and built on the composer's desire to "give the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm while the actual motion of the piece slowed down." Using a wheel-based numerical classification scheme to derive its title, this is, FTP, what Arthur Honegger composition about a speeding train?
Of the composer's two follow ups to this work, one was performed during a rugby match with England, and the other was left unnamed; together with them it is one of his three Mouvements Symphonique.
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