The Fourth Symphony of the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann is a work for string orchestra. It was completed in 1946-7.
It was derived in part from an earlier Concerto for strings and soprano written in 1938. Hartmann revised the work to include a new purely instrumental third and closing movement, marked Adagio appassionato. The second movement, Adagio di molto, risoluto, contains several references to Hartmann's own First String Quartet of 1933.Jaschinski, A. (1999) Hartmann: Symphonies 1-8, liner notes to EMI 5 56911 2 A typical performance lasts around 33 minutes.
The work was premiered in this form by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hans Rosbaud in Munich on 2 April 1948, chronologically before the premiere of his Third Symphony.
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