 Rachmaninoff 's choral symphony The Bells reflected the four @-@ part progression from youth to marriage , maturity , and death in Poe 's poem . Britten reversed the pattern for his Spring Symphony — the four sections of the symphony represent , in its composer 's words , " the progress of Winter to Spring and the reawakening of the earth and life which that means .... It is in the traditional four movement shape of a symphony , but with the movements divided into shorter sections bound together by a similar mood or point of view . " 
