A work for wind instruments, one for strings alone, in the second part one for the full orchestra and two voices, as well as a walk through the music history of the first half of the 20th century. After the First World War, Igor Stravinsky created a composition that he called Symphonies for Wind Instruments, which contained characteristic intonations such as bell sounds, chorale and folk song melodies, and dance rhythms in a small space. Richard Strauss described his Metamorphoses, which took shape as his last orchestral work in 1944/45 under the impression of the destruction of the Second World War, as a “study for 23 solo strings” and as a shocking document of the time. At the beginning of the 1920s, Alexander Zemlinsky, biographically between Strauss and Stravinsky, composed the Lyric Symphony, a series of orchestral songs based on texts by the Indian poet (and Nobel Prize winner for literature) Rabindranath Tagore, as a conscious counterpart to Mahler's Song of the Earth, a work of great importance Expressivity and urgency.