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Symphony
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An elaborate orchestral composition consisting usually of four contrasted and related movements; began to take distinctive shape in the 17th century, and was for long merely a form of overture to operas, &c., but as its possibilities were perceived was elevated into an independent concert-piece, and as such exercised the genius of Mozart and Haydn, reaching its perfection of form in the symphonies of Beethoven.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Symphony'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/symphony.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Symphony'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/symphony.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
