George Mathias (14 oct 1826 — 14 oct 1910)

[namoji]

Mathias, Georges .. was a composer who wrote two piano concertos, two symphonies, six piano trios and five pieces for piano and symphonic string orchestra, and a large number of studies for piano
anyone knows and have been recordings of some of his works?
was also a pupil of Chopin, among his disciples are isidor philip, carl Mikuli including

[eschiss1]

Offhand no - but, comment: the sixth piano trio op.60 in B-flat of Georges Amedee Saint-Clair Mathias can be found in score and parts at

http://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_No.6,_Op.60_(Mathias,_Georges)

(pub. ca. 1879.)

Will continue to look into the existence of recordings etc., though...
Eric

[giles.enders]

Is there any news of recordings of music by GM. The French are a bit short of piano concertos from that period.

[eschiss1]

The only recording mentioned on Worldcat of recordings so far of Georges (!) Mathias is one in 1963 of "Je me souviens de toi ; Ma Jenny."  Recordings in future would be good I suspect.
Eric

[eschiss1]

Still no information about recordings, but some of his works (don't know if this list is in Grove's) include
Piano trios nos. 1 in A minor op. 1 (pub. 1850), 2 op. 15,  3 op.  33 (in F?) (pub. 1863), 4 op. 36, 5 op. 50, 6 op. 60 (as noted) (keys and dates where available from Hofmeister). (A partial worklist is http://books.google.com/books?id=3p5AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 here actually, including the concertos opp. 21 and 57 and two piano sonatas, in B minor and F, also.) An even more substantial worklist (though only up to op. 57-or-so?) is here, giving the keys of the concertos as F-sharp minor and G minor and the opus number of the 2nd concerto as 56, not 57, and the op. no. of the first symphony as op. 22 (no key mentioned?)
Eric

[eschiss1]

The symphony might be the Dramatic Symphony on Wilhelm Meister premiered in 1859 noted here - I don't know.
Eric

[Gareth Vaughan]

Pazdirek lists only the 2-piano scores of the concertos as having been published. Finding the MS full scores and parts might prove difficult.