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Aimez vous Brahms? by Anatole LitvakFactotum (2005) by Bent Hamer, with Movement 3 Poco allegretto (C minor)L'art d'aimer (2011) [Soundtrack] (writer: "Symphony No. 3, Op. 90")
Whatever the person that wrote it wants to call it. Symphonies can have all sorts of variations in number of movements. Stravinsky wrote a piece he called "Symphony in Three Movements". Mozart's "Prague" Symphony (No. 38) has only three movements and is sometimes called the symphony without a minuet. Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony only has two movements, thought presumably it was not planned that way. In the final consideration, it's best simply to go with whatever the composer called it.
The number of movements in the work
Usually, there are three or four movements. Some however, do not have definite breaks between movements and segue directly into the next.
Cradle Song is the common name for a number of children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht ("Good evening, good night"), Op. 49, No. 4, published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby. The lyrics of the first verse are from a collection of German folk poems called Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the second stanza was written by Georg Scherer (1824-1909) in 1849. The lullaby's melody is one of the most famous and recognizable in the world, used by countless parents to sing their babies to sleep. The Lullaby was first sung by Brahms's friend, Bertha Faber, as the piece had been written to celebrate the birth of her son. Brahms had been in love with her in her youth and constructed the melody of the Wiegenliedto suggest, as a hidden countermelody, a song she used to sing to him.
symphony number................................... 6
Dmitriy Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5 in d minor has four movements, designated by their tempos: Moderato, Allegretto, Largo, and Allegro non troppo. Source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mn200/music/shostakovich/fifth-symphony.html
This symphony has no specific name
A symphony is a large piece of music written for an orchestra (like the New York Philharmonic or the Boston Symphony Orchestra). They started with Haydn during the Classical period, and are still written today. They consist usually of 3 main movements, or sections each lasting several minutes. (the number does vary depending on composer -- Olivier Messiaen wrote one that is 10 movements long!). See the related link 'Wikipedia - Symphony' below for further information. Symphony is also a greek word which means "agreement" It comes from two words:Syn=Add and phoni=voice thus you have "added voices" equals agreed voices...
Symphony Number 8 by Schubert
1863