Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: eschiss1 on Friday 06 September 2019, 03:03

Title: Fritz Reiner and Draeseke
Post by: eschiss1 on Friday 06 September 2019, 03:03
according to a dismissive account in "Fritz Reiner, Maestro" by Kenneth Morgan (patly dismissive of Draeseke, not of Reiner - "The works by Draeseke and Mraczek were performed no doubt because both composers were then resident teachers at the Dresden Conservatory of Music") - some works by Draeseke were part of Fritz Reiner's repertoire, to some extent, around 1919 or so, anyway. That part's interesting at least...

(Mraczek I know of only for a piano quintet I've skimmed and partially scanned; the Oriental Sketches Reiner conducted, I've only heard of. Gobler and others mentioned by Morgan (https://books.google.com/books?id=zrjSUVow2LkC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40) are mostly just names to me, except for Hugo Kaun who's been brought up and "sounded" here.)