One of his humorous passages occur in his Symphony No.94 in G Major, nicknamed the "Surprise" Symphony. The surprise occurs in the otherwise peaceful second movement andante being interrupted by a fortissimo chord, after which the placid movement continues.
One of the most Joyous pieces is also the Vivace assai Finale of his Symphony No.96 in D Major. This piece supposedly so excited the audience that they left their seats & rushed towards the stage, applauding. At this stage, a chandelier crashed down on the vacated seats! So this symphony was nicknamed "The Miracle"!
The other composer to compose joyous music was Felix Mendelssohn. His very first Symphony in C Minor, Op.11, composed when he was fifteen, is full of unbridled youthful high spirits. In addition, as Julius Harrison writes, "Mendelssohn had already indicated how neat, even fastidious, and colourful each detail must be in its expression, to say nothing of the balance between the instruments necessary to ensure a proper distribution of sounds in the bigger passages."
His fourth in A Major, Op.90, nicknamed the "Italian" has one of the most dramatic openings in symphonic literature. "Happy in its outlook, pictorial in ideas & orchestration, it is one of the symphonies to which one returns to find enjoyment in every note" concludes Julius Harrison.
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