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2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 4, 2023. Ernst Toch and more. Erns Toch, the Jewish-Austrian composer, was born on December 7th of 1887 in Leopoldstadt, a poor, mostly Jewish area in Vienna. Toch was one of a group of Austrian and German composers whose lives were upended by the rise of Nazism (Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Karl Weigl, Egon Wellesz, Hans Gál, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Berthold Goldschmidt, all Jewish, mostly forgotten except of course for Schoenberg, all talented if to a different degree, had their lives broken in 1933). One thing we find interesting is the ease with which they moved from Austria to Germany. These were two very different empires, one, declining, ruled by the peace-seeking Emperor Franz Joseph from Vienna, another – very much on the ascent, economically, politically and militarily, ruled by the arrogant and insecure Keiser Wilhelm II. But musicians thought nothing of moving from […]
2022-07-27 04:00:00
Un inttrccio Biedermeier: Weigl, Matiegka & Küffner (Classico Terzetto Italiano)
Joseph Weigl (1766-1846)Overture to L'amor marinaro, ossia il corsaro Overture to La famille Suisse (Both arr. Flute, Violin & Guitar)Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1733-1830)Notturno for Flute, Viola and Guitar, Op. 21 Joseph Küffner (1776-1856)Serenade for Guitar, Flute, and Viola, Op. 2Classico Terzetto Italiano(Period Instruments)Musica Viva MV107 (2018)[Flac & Scans]
2022-02-08 01:12:02
Today’s Wiener Zeitung is packed with ads for music from Weber’s Der Freischütz, a testament to the fervor that has swept Vienna for this opera. Weigl again offers fifteen numbers from the opera for piano solo. Artaria advertises an arrangement of the Overture for both piano solo and piano four …
2022-02-01 11:37:44
Apparently there have been some complaints about the many hasty and sloppy arrangements of Der Freischütz for piano that have been pushed out to the music trade. Today in the Wiener Zeitung Weigl’s art and music shop advertises Weber’s opera arranged for piano solo by Joseph Schmid, making the point …
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