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Franz Krommer was such a fine composer–perhaps not the most original voice of his age (1759-1831), but a really good musician who could produce characterful
Franz Krommer evidently took writing symphonies seriously, waiting until he
Franz Krommer (1759-1831) was a first rate composer. As you
If you can imagine the combination of Bartók’s alternately nocturnal
This disc strikes me as an ideal introduction to the
Yes, this music is ridiculously conservative, as we might expect
Spohr’s symphonic music (and much else) is earnest to the point of caricature. The Seventh Symphony is subtitled “The Earthly and Divine in Human Life,”
You have to give Howard Griffiths and his fine orchestra
Spohr subtitled his Fourth Symphony “The Consecration of Tone: Characteristic Tone Painting in Symphonic Form”, and prefaced it with a long-winded poem of the same
Gustave Kerker (1847-1923) was born in Germany, raised in America from childhood, and became in his day a popular musical theater composer and contributor to
