Richard Heuberger

[JimL]

KUSC just played the Serenade for Strings, Op. 7 by this unsung Austrian composer.  How much else of his music has been recorded?  It was quite striking.

[jerfilm]

Interesting, I have that as "Night Music for strings", opus 7.  Old Lp.

Jerry

[albion]

Is this the same composer (1850-1914) who penned the very attractive operetta Der Opernball (1898)?





If so, the overture and extracts from this work (especially the waltz-song Ins chambre separee) have received several fine recordings. He also wrote a Symphony and several other unrecorded orchestral works, including an Overture Kain, Op.16 (1883) -

http://imslp.org/wiki/Overture_to_Kain,_Op.16_(Heuberger,_Richard)

[JimL]

That would seem to be the guy.  But his Wiki has him as an opera/operetta/ballet composer.  His instrumental works seem to have gotten short shrift (like none at all).  Can you direct me to a more complete catalogue of works?

[eschiss1]

Well, one could always try to start one...
selective list:
Books-
"Im foyer: gesammelte essays über das opernrepertoire der gegenwart" (1901, Seemann nachfolger)

Non-operatic works
Op.1 - Sommermorgen: ,,Leise träumt die Sommernacht" for mixed chorus (1877)
Op.2 - Lied fahrender Schüler: ,,Durch die Welt mit Sang und Klang", aus J. Wolff's Rattenfänger von Hameln, f. Männerchor m. Orch. (1877)
Op.3 - Handwerksburschenlied (Men's chorus and piano) (1877)
Op.4 - Drei Frauenchöre m. Pfte. (1877)
Op.5 - 5 Lieder (1877)
Op.6 - Liebesspiel (in Walzerform) (mixed chorus and piano) (1878)
Op.7- aforementioned Nachtmusik for strings (or arranged) (1878)
Op.8 - 4 Works for Men's Chorus (1878)
Op.9 - 5 Lieder (1879)
Op.10 - 2 Works for Men's Chorus (1879)
Op.11 - Variations on a theme by Schubert (1880)
Op.12 - 3 Lieder (1880)
Op.13 - 4 Gesänge (1882)
Op.14 - ,,Es steht eine Lind' im tiefen Thal" for mixed chorus (1881)
Op.15 - 5 Lieder (1882)
Op.16 - Ov to Kain for orchestra (1883)
Op.17 - 12 Liederreigen f. 4 Solost. u. gem. Chor m. Pfte. (1884)
Op.18 - Rhapsodie aus Rückert's Liebesfrühling f. T.-Solo, gem. Chor u. Orch. (1883)
Op.19 - Geht dir's wohl, so denk' du an mich: ,,Wenn ich geh' vor mir" (Cantata) (1883)
Op.20 - Schlachtgesang (Altdeutsches Kriegslied): ,,Kein sel'ger Tod ist in der Welt" f. Männerchor u. Orch. (1884)
Op.21 - 3 Lieder (1884)
Op.22 - 3 Duets for soprano and tenor (1885)
Op.23 - 3 Lieder (1885)
Op.24 - ?
Op.25 - ?
Op.26 - 2 Works for Men's Chorus (1886)
Op.27 - 4 Gesänge (1886)
Op.28 - 3 Duets for soprano and tenor (1887)
Op.29 - ,,Die Abenteuer einer Neujahrsnacht" (1887; excerpts published 1886) - this doesn't belong in the non-operatic list, though non-operatic excerpts also use the same opus number... well, that's cheating (Sydney Smith's Opus 213, also 1886, is a fantasy on this. There's a webpage from which many of this entertaining British composer's works can be downloaded in copies courtesy the British Library. A subject for another Topic, I think. Also, see IMSLP if interested.)

Heuberger also found time ca.1886 (pub. that year by Fr.Kistner, Leipzig) to arrange his teacher's (Fuchs') waltzes opus 25 for orchestra. Anyhow, moving on...
Op.30 - Nun grüss dich Gott, Frau Minne for Men's Chorus and Orch. (1887)
Op.31 - 5 Lieder (1887)
Op.32 - ?
Op.33 - 4 Lieder (1891?)
Op.34 - 3 Lieder (1887)
Op.37 - 2 Lieder (1891)
Op.38 - 3 Works for Men's Chorus (1891)
(Op.40 is die Opernballe. Only using a list that goes up to 1900 at the moment.)

[JimL]

Wonder if the missing opus numbers include the symphony and any instrumental, chamber or other orchestral works mentioned by Albion?

[eschiss1]

more were missing until I tried harder, too (and in this and other cases, expanded my range of sources! - here, mostly Worldcat, Hofmeisters, books.google.com.). Like some such lists on IMSLP & WikiP (indeed, I mean to transfer this one to the former as a starter with a bit of modification), that's how they start... get all the information one can up to a point and then dump it on everyone else to add, but keep trying to add to it allsame I enjoy sorting these things out (as can...) much too much; appeals to that part of me. Anyhow.Sorry.

[eschiss1]

BTW, have uploaded an English translation (by Louisa Cragin) of one of the Opus 10 choruses to IMSLP (as scanned in by the Library of Congress, with some needed effort at cleaning, cropping and deskewing.)