Mischa Spoliansky

Symphony

Spoliansky worked on Symphony over the course of three decades, from 1941 to 1969. It proves to be a very interesting historical document. Some passages are harbingers of orchestral composition techniques now well known in film music, while others evoke the music of the heyday of revue theatres. In his oeuvre Symphony counts as the only symphonic work and can be considered a programmatic symphony or, perhaps more appropriately, music for an imaginary film.