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There are three Movements :
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While begun earlier - sketches for a Faust symphony exist from the 1840s - it was mainly written in Weimar in the summer of 1854. The work was then revised in the next few years, with a ''Chorus Mysticus'' added to the finale in which words from Faust Part II are sung to music from the middle movement, and other changes made also.

It was premiered in Weimar on September 5, 1857.


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  • of the ''Allegro agitato'' main sonata theme of the first movement, later changed to common time in the revision.)