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How is sehr feierlich played?
The performer plays with heightened, especially grave solemnity, the qualifier 'sehr' (very) pushing the ceremonial character further. It is a German character marking favoured in the Austro-German symphonic tradition, typically heading deeply serious slow movements. Bruckner in particular uses 'sehr feierlich' as part of his Adagio headings, where it asks for an almost devotional gravity. The intensifier signals affect rather than a precise tempo, though it leans toward the broad and unhurried.
How does sehr feierlich sound?
Profoundly grave and ceremonial — solemnity raised to its fullest intensity.
In context
Feierlich is glossed as 'solemn'; 'sehr' intensifies it to 'very solemn'. Bruckner uses the phrase in his symphonic Adagios, notably as part of the Symphony No. 7 slow movement heading.
Equivalent terms
- IT molto solenne
- FR très solennel
- EN very solemn
- DA meget højtideligt