Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 3:00 pm
"An Autumn Romance"
at the Church of Saint William
6120 Fifth Street NE, Fridley MN 55432
Tenderness, Melancholy, Dancing, Mystery, Exhilaration -
Schumann’s Fourth Symphony has it All!
Immerse yourself in it November 8,
along with equally romantic works
by Louise Farrenc and Gabriel Fauré!
Louise Farrenc - Overture No. 1
Gabriel Fauré - “Dolly” Suite (orch. H. Rabaud)
Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 4
Louise Farrenc was a nineteenth-century musical pioneer. She was a virtuoso pianist and excelled as a composer. She was the only female professor at the Paris Conservatoire for the entirety of the 19th Century.
The Fauré suite began life as a piano duet, but was orchestrated a few years later by his colleague Henri Rabaud.
Of Schumann’s four symphonies, Symphony No. 4 was in fact a revision of the second one he wrote - chronologically speaking. Schumann extensively reworked the 1841 original and by the time it was presented to the public in 1851, it was fourth in the published sequence.
