Chamber Symphony

The Chamber Symphony is an instrumental work by Austrian composer Franz Schreker. Composition history The work was composed in 1916 for the centenary of the Vienna Music Academy where Schreker had been teaching since 1912. The musical material is partly derived from an abandoned opera project entitled Die tönenden Sphären for which Schreker wrote the libretto and part of the music in 1915. The work compresses the four movements of a traditional symphony into a single larger one, after the example of Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1.