Franz Lachner's work catalogue registers almost two hundred opus numbers representing practically all the important musical genres. CPO present world premiere recordings of two of his symphonic works. Lachner composed his Symphony No. 3 between the spring of 1833 and April 1834, and after its premiere it was enthusiastically received and reviewed. The Vienna correspondent of the Leipziger Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung celebrated the work emphatically as the bold product of an imagination of youthful fire moderated by the laws of eternal truth and beauty." poser of the nineteenth century."

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