- General information
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Composition date:
1954
- Duration: 30 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Commission: Koussevitzky Foundation
- Dedication: à la mémoire de Serge et Natalie Koussevitzky
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Composition date:
1954
- Type
- Instrumental ensemble music [String and percussion ensemble]
Detailed formation
- harp, timpani, 5 percussionists, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
9 September 1954
Location:Italie, Venise, Teatro La Fenice
Performers:Isaac Stern : violon, l'Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, direction : Leonard Bernstein.
Observations
Œuvre composée d'après Le Banquet de Platon.
Table of contents
I. Phaedrus : Pausanias ; II. Aristophanes ; III. Eryximachus ; IV. Agathon ; V. Socrates: Alcibiades.