Hahn

[eschiss1]

Going out on a limb here and guessing that Reynaldo Hahn's 140th birth anniversary today (or this year, even) has gone without a plop or any other notice from record companies or otherwise, but... *notice* *note*

[kolaboy]

Par for the course.

[matesic]

Unless 140 years has some special significance for Hahn that escapes me (what does that cryptic wink mean, Eric?), wouldn't justice then demand "celebrating" every composer's anniversary every 10 years? Several dozen composers every year?

[mikehopf]

Why not celebrate a composer's birth date every year? I share a birthday with Offenbach - 20th June for all those who wish to send me greetings - and our local classical radio station always dedicates a program or plays a few selections of his works on this date. Same of course for other composers, even the more obscure ones!

[matesic]

Excellent idea! Today I shall drink a toast to Alexander Mosolov (b.1900), Wilhelm Grosz (1894), Frederick Jerome Work (1880), Arpad Szendy (1863) and, most famously, Joseph Schuster (1748).

[eschiss1]

Schuster's a bit early for us, but I've taken an interest in his symphonies and masses over @ IMSLP... (a, but not the, Franz Schubert wrote a biography of him in 1823 that seems interesting...)