tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1128621642999048362005-10-06T19:00:00.000+01:002005-10-06T19:00:00.000+01:00Thank you, Pliable. This article will take a while fully to digest... Here are a few first impressions.<BR/><BR/>From your list, the names of Max von Schilling, Ernst Toch, Walter Braunfels, Karol Rathaus, Wladimir Vogel, and Ernst Pepping are ones immediately familiar to me.(I am also trying to recall the name of an aristocratic German opera composer who lived in Berlin-Dahlem much of his life, and whose operas have recently been issued on CPO.)<BR/><BR/>Max von Schilling, who died in 1933 and who taught Furtwangler composition, composed Mona Lisa in 1915, and subsequently saw the work performed at the MET. This opera is available, I believe on CPO. He also wrote three earlier operas.<BR/><BR/>Walter Braunfel's The Birds, based upon Aristophanes has been available on London CD for some time. It was also performed at the Spoleto Festival USA this past summer:<BR/><BR/>http://www.spoletousa.org/events/event.php?category_id=2&event_id=48<BR/><BR/>Karol Rathaus also has a London CD available. This Polish, and nominally Jewish composer, ended up in New York. His archives are available in Queens, New York City:<BR/><BR/>http://qcpages.qc.edu/Library/info/krarchive.html<BR/><BR/>Swiss composer Wladimir Vogel is represented on some largely Swiss CD labels. I've been intrigued by his name ever since musicologist Robert P. Morgan, in his 1976 program book to the first (and only) New York Philharmonic-Juilliard Festival of Contemporary Music, cited Vogel's "Til Eulenspiegel" as an outstanding, but unknown, twentieth century masterpiece. (I think the work has another name that I can't now think of.)<BR/><BR/>Ernst Toch, as you cite, ended up in Los Angeles, and has been championed by Michael Tilson Thomas in L.A. and San Francisco. His archives are at:<BR/><BR/>http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/toch/<BR/><BR/>Ernst Pepping largely is now known for his Protestant sacred choral music. He is published by Schott Musick. I have a double CD of his choral music.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I was interested to learn of the premiere of Schoenberg's Variations, which I had forgotten. Schoenberg was apparently both hopeful and apprehensive when he was appointed his professorship in Berlin. (Vienna had become for him a baroque city, lost in the past.) But as Schoenberg's 1923 letter to Wassily Kandinsky revealed, he gravely feared the anti-semitism of "Hittler" [sic].<BR/><BR/>Having met Schoenberg's son Lawrence this past Tuesday, I would be remiss not to give here the link to the Vienna Schoenberg Center:<BR/><BR/>www.schoenberg.atGarth Trinklhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952837886402774649noreply@blogger.com