The Fanfare zu Eröffnung der Musikwoche der Stadt Wien was written to celebrate the opening of the Music Week in Vienna toward the end of 1924. This work is scored for 6 trumpets, 8 horns, 6 trombones, 2 tubas and 2 sets of timpani. It is a solemn and slow piece made up with long-breathed themes. It opens ecstatically with a succession of soft horn chords. A series of trumpet calls in fourths precedes another quiet passage that slowly builds up to a restrained climax and then subsides once more. The last section, announced by the motive in fourths, is a crescendo, which reaches its climax at the very end, underlined by the marching rhythm of the timpani. The last chord lingers while fading away.

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