A Symphony
<p>Oil on canvas, 169 x 100 cm
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<table class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; background:#f0f0ff; border:1px solid #aaa;" lang="en"><tbody><tr valign="top"><th colspan="4" style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;"><span class="fn" id="creator"><bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Neue_Pinakothek" class="extiw" title="w:en:Neue Pinakothek"><span title="art museum in Munich, Germany">Neue Pinakothek</span></a>
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</tr><tr valign="top"><td rowspan="8" style="width:120px" id="fileinfotpl_creator_image"><span class="wpImageAnnotatorControl wpImageAnnotatorOff"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neue_Pinakothek,_entrance.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Neue Pinakothek" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg/187px-Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg" decoding="async" width="187" height="140" class="photo" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg/280px-Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg/373px-Neue_Pinakothek%2C_entrance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000"></a></span></td>
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<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;">Neue Pinakothek</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Parent institution</td>
<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bavarian_State_Painting_Collections" class="extiw" title="w:en:Bavarian State Painting Collections"><span title="artworks held by the Free State of Bavaria for Alte Pinakothek, Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Schleissheim and others">Bavarian State Painting Collections</span></a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170152#P361" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Location</td>
<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;"><div class="locality"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Munich" class="extiw" title="w:en:Munich"><span title="capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany">Munich</span></a></div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Coordinates</td>
<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;">48° 08′ 59″ N, 11° 34′ 16″ E <span class="wpImageAnnotatorControl wpImageAnnotatorOff"><a href="//www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=48.149722&amp;mlon=11.571111&amp;zoom=17" title="Link to OpenStreetMap" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Link to OpenStreetMap" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/20px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/30px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/40px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="256"></a></span> <span class="wpImageAnnotatorControl wpImageAnnotatorOff"><a href="//maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;q=48.149722,11.571111&amp;tab=wl" title="Link to Google Maps" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Link to Google Maps" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg/20px-Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="29" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg/30px-Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg/40px-Google_Maps_icon_%282020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="734"></a></span> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170152#P625" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Established</td>
<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;">1853 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170152#P1619" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Website</td>
<td colspan="2" style="word-break:break-word;border:1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pinakothek.de/en">www.pinakothek.de</a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="background-color:#e0e0ee; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #aaa;">Authority file</td>
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Schwind was a key figure in Vienna. He was a Romantic artist and music was of great importance to him as thematic reference. In 1852 he "composed" A Symphony in oils, and provided the commentary on it himself: "The whole should be imagined as the Beethoven wall of a music room... and it is based on a composition by Beethoven, the Fantasia in C for Piano, Orchestra and Choir..." Schwind said that the individual zones of his painting, into which he wove a love story, correspond to the four movements of Beethoven's composition. At the bottom we see a chamber music rehearsal (Introduction), in which one of the young listeners falls in love with the singer; later they meet in a wood (Andante); above this again we see the young man declaring his feelings at a ball (Adagio); and finally, in the little castle, the happy husband and his bride are setting off for their honeymoon in the stronghold of bliss (Rondo).
Schwind's painting and his explanation of it indicate a basic phenomenon of the time - the combination of story and music to make program music. In Schwind's work we find the beginnings of the total work of art Wagner was to proclaim.
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moritz_von_Schwind" class="extiw" title="w:en:Moritz von Schwind"><span title="Austrian painter (1804-1871)">Moritz von Schwind</span></a>
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