Emilie Meyer Symphony 7

[Richard Moss]

I was just looking up any 'web' details available on Mayer's Sym 5 (which I have just downloaded from e-music) when up popped a YOUTUBE link to a performance of her Sym 7?? Anyone any more info in this??

Best wishes

Richard

[jerfilm]

I see it's in f minor - am not at home so i can't compare it to #5 which is also in f minor.   Could it be a typo?

Jerry

[britishcomposer]

It's no. 5, so obviously a typo.

[Balapoel]

I have the following (from Groves, wiki, and elsewhere)

Symphony No. 1 in c minor (1847)
Symphony No. 2 in e minor (1847)
Symphony No. 3 in C 'Military' (1850)
Symphony No. 4 in b minor (1851) 37 min
Symphony No. 5 in D (1852) lost
Symphony No. 6 in E   (1853)
Symphony No. 7 in f minor (1856) 34 min   
Symphony No. 8 in F (1857)

Symphony 7 is mislabeled as 5 on this CD.
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=1032887

[britishcomposer]

Well, then I have to say sorry.

Obviously some youtubers care to look beyond the sleeve notes. Which I did not.

[jerfilm]

Thanks for clearing that up.  I was obviously wrong about #5 being in f minor.   Since it's lost, I guess it doesn't much matter......

J

[Gareth Vaughan]

Ros Trubcher has produced a modern edition of the orchestral score of Symphony No. 6. I do not know where Mayer's MSS are or how much of her unpublished music survives. A "Faust" Overture for orchestra was published and the BL has a copy of the Full Score.

[Mark Thomas]

Meyer's Faust Overture and Piano Concerto can be downloaded from our own archive here, and her Fourth Symphony here.

[Richard Moss]

Thanks for the clarifications guys.  Having enjoyed the UC downloads and then the 'so-called' Sym 5 e-music download, what a pity this ISN't another treasure coming to the market. Ah well, que sera!

Richard

[Gareth Vaughan]

Many thanks for the links, Mark.

[semloh]

Just a pedantic observation .... I see that our downloads incorrectly referred to Mayer instead of Meyer.  For a moment there I thought I had missed out on a new Unsung Composer. 

[eschiss1]

The only one of her symphonies that I know was published in the 19th century was her B minor symphony, and then only in a piano duet (I think) reduction (and given the wrong number, I believe, and as "Emilie Mayer"- indeed, that's the name I'm used to seeing her music published under; "Meyer" makes me think of several other composers, mostly a modern one who's still alive, from Poland.)

[rosflute]

Spelling was not standardised in Emilie's era, so it is not unusual to see it spelt with an 'a' or an 'e'.

Regarding the B minor symphony: Stefan Malzew re-orchestrated it and performed it with his Neubrandenburg orchestra