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Solemnly, ceremoniously — with festive gravity.
Feierlich implies something between solemn and celebratory — a sacred or ceremonial occasion. Bruckner uses it for his most elevated, quasi-religious passages.
Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, second movement — "Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam" (very solemn and very slow), the great Adagio elegy.
Feierlich is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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