Franz Mikorey (1873-1947)

[eschiss1]

Well, (reminded by the Bittner thread) there's Bittner, there's Mittner, there's, erm... Mikorey. Wrote at the least a piano concerto in A (published 1905), piano trio in B (natural) (published 1913), piano quintet in E minor (published 1914, premiered by 1910).  (These three works can be seen- probably not in the EU until 2018 - at IMSLP.  Haven't heard any of his works, but did skim his music awhile back and more recently (some), curious if anyone's familiar with it. (bio e.g. here at German Wikipedia.)

(Identified in "Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911" as "A German composer and conductor from Munich. Strauss seems to have advised Mahler against engaging Mikorey. (footnote to "Wasn't I right about Mikorey?" in a letter of 11 July (1901) from Strauss to Mahler.)

[Alan Howe]

jimsemadeni writes:

Found performance of Mikorey's piano concerto on YouTube, on search in Google a mention of him was made on here back in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDxZDAkWl-_ubMg2Ww5tovg?spfreload=10

[Alan Howe]

Gareth Vaughan replies:

Link doesn't work for me.

[Alan Howe]

Nor for me!

[eschiss1]

I find several video results under his name but none of his music or performances. Odd.

[jerfilm]

Try this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrPRvjTUgJ0

But it only seems to be one movement.   Is there more??

Jerry

[jimsemadeni]

Movements II and III.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRO_H-DF7nc

[Alan Howe]

Neither video is apparently available to us here in the UK. Perhaps some kind person who can access the whole work could download it from YouTube and upload it to UC...

[pianoconcerto]

This is a commercial release (8 euros CD; also will be available for download), so I don't know if the moderators would approve of posting even if it's on youtube in USA:

http://anhaltisches-theater.de/anhaltische_philharmonie

[eschiss1]

Well, at least in the USA it's "Provided to YouTube by AAA Media Solutions GmbH & CO Kg" rather than a pirate upload, fwiw.

And I see too that "25 minutes", the composer's predicted duration (from the reduction available @ IMSLP), is the actual duration of the one recording of the work. Well-guessed, sir...

(And now that it's 2018, his music published before 1923 is in the public domain everywhere, and the rest of it is in the public domain in the EU and Canada. I know I shouldn't mind hearing eg the piano quintet or piano trio )

[eschiss1]

His major published work, it -seems-, besides the quintet, trio, and concerto (and lots of lieder) and his opera the King of Samarkand..., was "Nordische Sommernacht : für Männerschor, Tenor- u. Baritonsolo u. grosses Orchester" published in 1902...? (Though SBB I think has sketches for a symphony with chorus.)

[Alan Howe]

Of course it can't be uploaded if it's a commercial release. Here's a link to the download in question:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Von-F%C3%BCrstlichen-Hofkapelle-Anhaltischen-Philharmonie/dp/B0796WJPZ3/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1516900281&sr=8-7&keywords=anhaltische+philharmonie

The link to the orchestra doesn't work, by the way. Only an educated guess at where the download might be produced the above result!

[semloh]

Those two movements of the Klavierkonzert on YT are a delight. The download from Amazon should be worth every penny/cent!

[eschiss1]

I think that may be all 3 movements, with the 2nd and 3rd movements connected to be one "2nd" movement, but comparison with the reduced score @ IMSLP should clarify; I'll check later?...

[Alan Howe]

You're right, Eric.