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The first theme of the second group is assigned to divided first violins, beneath which wind-instruments intone the second theme.
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No. II contains five sharply contrasted and interwoven themes. ([No. 24].) The piercing accents of the wood-wind in their shrillest and most blatant range are here drawn into requisition, and are legitimately suggestive of Wagner's "Beckmesser" orchestration. The section subsequently embodies five modified expositions from the first leading theme of No. I.
