Lesley Alexander Prize

[eschiss1]

Fritz Kauffmann's music seems interesting too- at least, his string quartet and wind quintet and other works in score/parts @ IMSLP do, I think... hoping to see more of those. Yet another of those people who've disappeared, again...

[eschiss1]

Re that Dunhill diary entry that was linked to... Muklefield? (with the question mark next to it) Surely Muhlfeld the clarinettist!

[Simon]

David Stephen's Trio must have been the winner of the 1902 edition (not 1901), since the works were to be sent before January 18, 1902, according to this entry in the New Zealand Herald:

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19010622.2.77.42&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0--

It is available, among many other compositions by Stephen, at the Scottish Music Center.

http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/db/CART/product_details.php?product_id=6141

[Simon]

The 1897 edition wasn't only designed for the Quintet (flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano). According to the Musical News, this edition was also open to :

- Septet (violin, cello, double bass, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano)
- Octet (2 violins, cello, double bass, oboe, horn, bassoon and piano)

http://books.google.fr/books?id=7-gsAAAAYAAJ&q=%22yorke+trotter%22+horn+string&dq=%22yorke+trotter%22+horn+string&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=2835UZnmBarA4APJtoGgCw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg

Percy Hilder Miles's Septet in E flat (without piano, but with a viola!) must have come close behind Edmondstoune Duncan's Quintet. Both works were performed at the London Organ School and International College of Music, on May 27, 1898 (The Musical Times, July 1, 1898, p. 482).

[eschiss1]

Ah! Of the various chamber works by Miles I do know (because they were published, or because they are listed in the catalogue of his autograph ms, or mentioned in accounts in Musical Times that I've run across so far (like his piano trio in C minor), etc.) the septet had so far escaped my notice. I wonder if it survives in some form still (ms. presumably...) Thanks! (Became interested in his music when I ran into scores / parts of his string quartet fantasy-pieces and his sextet in G minor scanned in online, and found very little biographical information about him- though with very much research work done by matesic (thanks!!) it was possible to fill in some of the latter...)