This item is available for sale to New Zealand schools or educational institutions at special discounted pricing. To be eligible for this pricing please register with your official school email address by contacting support@promethean-editions.com.
This score is a Student Workbook and is not covered under the AMCOS school licencing scheme and cannot be photocopied.
Please note this student workbook score contains movement III only. (Movements I and II are sold separately, PEL24aW and PEL24bW).Symphony No.1 (1949) is an essential work to study in the history of New Zealand music. Premiered in 1951 by the National Orchestra (now the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra), Lilburn's Symphony No.1 was later established as a staple of orchestral repertoire with regular performances and recordings. This critical edition is the first computer-engraved publication of the workand is the second of four volumes published in celebration of the centenary of Lilburn's birth in 1915.
Douglas Liburn occupies a pre-eminent position in New Zealand music, with a legacy extending well beyond his compositional output. As a composer, a teacher, and later as a warm, generous and encouraging background presence, he presided in innumerable ways over the artistic growth of this country. His music, from the early works redolent of the influence of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, to the electroacoustic pieces of his later years, makes up a corpus of works that has been instrumental in establishing a genuinely vernacular voice in New Zealand classical music.
