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Here it is: Tonkünstler- und Verleger-Almanach der Musikliterarischen Blätter pp.72-74.

Here is the article on Jentsch from Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild if that is the article you are seeking: pages 320-321.

The manuscript you link to purports to be Chausson's holograph (signed on the last page). Higher resolution images can be found at the source: Library of Congress. The score was donated to the Library by Fritz Kreisler who had received it from Eugène Ysaÿe. Another manuscript of Op.25 can be found at the French National Library.

No.9 is a selection from the ballet Coppélia by Léo Delibes.  The big tune starts around 4:30.

The Lewenthal LP can be heard on the Internet Archive.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  I have uploaded corrected files to IMSLP.

1942 Zeitschrift für Musik reports the performance of Franke's Symphony No.4 in E-flat major (or E major as they reported in the second blurb) "Frühling im Tal der Müglitz" on Jan. 12, 1942 in Teplitz-Schönau by the Städtische Orchester under Bruno C. Schestak. First mention (Jan. 1942), second mention (Feb. 1942).

Small (or Little)Suite for String Orchestra (op. 863) on that South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra CD.  Now the only "Little Suite" I know is the  Carl Nielsen....

My post (#95) in this thread had a link to the publisher's website and noted that several of Franke's scores are available there as perusal pdfs including Kleine Suite für Streichorchester Op.863.

Wanted to add two notes.  The website for Edition49 has a few perusal scores of Franke's scores published by Vogt & Fritz.  Search for Hans Franke. The scores available are the Quartetto eufonico per quattro sonatori Op.841, Kleine Suite für Streichorchester Op.863, and Drei konzertante Stücke.  I also note that among his Drei Lieder is Der Spielmann Op.261 for voice, violin, and piano.  Eugen Hildach (1849-1924) published a song for voice and piano also entitled Der Spielmann as his Op.15 No.1 in 1893.  In 1931 a version was published by Heinrichshofen's Verlag that included a violin solo.

Interestingly, https://hans-franke.de/ claims he attended the Leipzig Conservatory but the Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig 1893-1918 which lists all the students who attended during those years does not list a Hans Franke. His bio claims he studied piano and composition under Carl Reinecke. Reinecke retired from the Conservatory in 1902 so Franke's attendance at the conservatory would have to have fallen within the period the book covers.

The links to the Stöhr collection at St. Michael's College and the pdf inventory don't seem to be working.  The pdf can be accessed via the Internet Archive here.  It appears they have a number of the symphonies in full score.  The Austrian National Library also has about 150 manuscript scores by Stöhr.

Could be in NLR.

This PDF would appear to be an inventory of what manuscripts of Nápravník are in their collection (or at least as of 1960).

It appears that the Max-Reger-Archiv holds three manuscripts (scores and parts) of the Konzertstück which are described here: D-MEIr BI5, D-MEIr BI6, and D-MEIr B17.

Edward Eanes' dissertation that ultimately became his published book is available to download from here.  Eanes had access to the composer's archive held by his son some of which has been deposited at Tulane University (Giuseppe Ferrata papers).  Eanes' work list makes no mention of a symphony.  Ferrata's piano concerto was produced by him as a two-piano score which his publisher J. Fischer & Brother had orchestrated by a New York musician. It isn't clear if what was in the archive was the two-piano score or the full score or both. It appears that Ferrata's son must have held onto his father's music scores as the collection at Tulane consists of correspondence and miscellaneous papers. The few scores Tulane has digitized are printed editions and many of those are in distressed condition.  Those transferred to IMSLP have been cleaned up.

Hi 4candles,

I've used Tesseract with the Fraktur font library to perform OCR on German-language librettos with some success.  I've taken the article, cropped the images, and have run it through Tesseract.  The results aren't too bad considering the rather low resolution of the original images. The PDF with an OCR layer can be downloaded here. You can select all the text and copy it to a text file to clean it up further.