symphonies
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Across several studies, participants who listened to specific excerpts from symphonies by Liszt or Mahler imagined similar narratives in the music—storms, pirates and shipwrecks, in one case.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
A box set of Beethoven’s nine symphonies is, though not indispensable—there are hundreds of recorded cycles already—evidence that his orchestra is among the world’s top ensembles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
“Ludwig” tosses in the additional coloring of a classical music-inspired soundtrack driven by Beethoven’s famous symphonies.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025
“Mahler Grooves” may not be as crazy-making for Dudamel, who leads only two complete symphonies, the Fifth and the Seventh.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025
Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
