5 of Roger Sessions was commissioned in 1960 and completed in 1964.
[1][2][3] It was commissioned by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the first movement only was premiered by them in February 1964,[3] the rest not being completed until that December.
[2] It is scored for three flutes, three oboes, four clarinets, three bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, harp and strings.
[4] Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal", with No.
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