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Works by Emilie Mayer, Igor Stravinsky, Antonín Dvořák

Emilie Mayer was a very successful composer of her time. Originally from Mecklenburg, Mayer counted the ballad king Carl Loewe in Stettin among her teachers. She pursued further studies in Berlin from 1847, where several of her symphonies were premiered. Her overture to "Faust" is also a showpiece. The work was composed in 1880, at the very end of her life; she died at a ripe old age in Berlin in 1883. The Faust Overture sounds like German dark romanticism, a little like Schubert' s Unfinished - and then turns majestically upwards. Igor Stravinsky composed his ballet music The Firebird in 1910 - one of his greatest hits alongside Le Sacre du printemps and Petrushka. Incredibly virtuosic orchestration, rousing; a feast for audience and orchestra. Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, which premiered in London in 1885, was also a great success. A passionate and combative piece of music full of Bohemian folklore echoes.