Antoine Dewanger: another mystery

[adriano]

I have some old recordings conducted by Antoine Dewanger (1905-1974), who seems to be an exciting, totally neglected composer. There is a rumour that he was a Collaborateur during the Nazi Régime.
He composed an impressive "Symphonie Dramatique" for orchestra with an extra group of 9 Saxophones, which I always wanted to record, but could not find any interest from producers/sponsors. Publishers, French, Duch and Belgian Composer's Copyright Offices have no information on Dewanger, what happened there?? His tone poem"Méphisto" and "Marche solennelle" are the works conducted by Dewanger which I have on 78s.
Greetings from Switzerland
Adriano
Conductor/Composer

[eschiss1]

some basic date and place of birth/death information is here...  born in Purkersdorf (bei Wien), died in Dusseldorf, also went by Anton (not surprisingly ).

[Gareth Vaughan]

The RAM has a score of his Humoresque for trombone & piano - that's all I can find in the UK, but he is listed among the Special Collections of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Musiksammlung.

[adriano]

Oh, thanks, so it looks he is coming from the Autro-German region and not from Belgium or Netherlands :-)
Greetings Adriano

[eschiss1]

yes- he was born near Vienna and died in Dusselsdorf, so that seems likely or at least possible.

[eschiss1]

United Music Publishers does have three works by him (Mephisto, the Symphonie Dramatique, and Epilogue joyeux) in their hire catalogue, I notice...

[adriano]

I have those scores, they are represented today by various French publishers. The tone pom "Mephisto" is available for rental from Gerard Billaudot, Paris