[Trombone-l] Dvorak Symphony No. 9 (NWS)

[Adrian Drover]

> From: Jeff Albert
> 
> Keith Marr <epigraph55 at hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > Another one is Das
> Lied von der Erde where there's 14 bars of tuba in the 4th movement and
> nothing else in the whole 50 minutes. I couldn't imagine being able to get
> any crap like that past any publisher's editor I know . . .
> 
> I'm not picking a side here, just asking a question.  Should those
> sorts of logistical considerations outweigh artistic considerations in
> the composer's mind as the piece is orchestrated?


Maybe the composer forgot that the orchestra had a tuba available.  Heck,
all those string basses, bassoons and bass clarinet to find notes for.
Maybe he ran out of notes.

A.