The first was composed before the outbreak of World War II in Nuremberg.
This centralizes everything with its weaving metamorphoses and gives the symphonies a breathing rhythm.
"There is not simply a horizontal 'exposition' in a single voice but the 'accompanying' instruments also take up motifs and their variants" all through the symphony, "resulting in a vertical density of internal relationships.
Like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe he experienced within himself a continual metamorphosis of musical themes as result of his connection with forces of life.
By discovering this he was able to change the methods of composing and gave new life to the symphony, including its formal aspects.