Egon Kornauth News
Austrian musician (1891-1959)
- piano
- symphony
- Austria
- composer, conductor, music teacher, pianist
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2014-09-16 04:23:14
American Violinist John McLaughlin Williams talks about the music of Florent Schmitt and the Sonate libre (1918-19).
[…] ask Mr. Williams to share his perspectives on the sonata and its significance in the violin repertoire. His insights, presented below, are quite revealing. PLN: Tell me how you came to know the music of Florent Schmitt, and the Sonate libre in particular? JMW: Florent Schmitt’s music was introduced to me by Bradley Pfaller, a New York City-based pianist. Brad was very knowledgeable about the repertoire of lesser-known composers like Schmitt, Joseph Jongen and Egon Kornauth . Often, he would assemble like-minded musicians to read and play through unusual works. One of the works we read together was Schmitt’s 1908 Piano Quintet — and I found it to be an amazing piece of music. As is always the case for me when discovering a new composer, I then sought to hear everything I could written by Schmitt. This being the days before CD recordings were in general circulation, […]
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