Franz Lachner – Andante in D major ()

Recreation of composer’s manuscript score in Dorico notation software, with playback by Noteperformer instruments. Franz Lachner composed his 6th Symphony in D major, op. 56, around 1837. The symphony was performed and promptly published by Haslinger in 1838. However, Lachner replaced this original Andante of that symphony some time AFTER drafting a piano 4-handed version BUT before the score was published in its final form. The melodic and harmonic language of this movement has striking stylistic and melodic resemblances with the composer’s 7th Symphony, op. 58 (“in Form einer Elegie“), which was composed not too long after the 6th.