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Today, on its Facebook page, Hyperion Records is asking a question almost designed for the members of this forum : "What would you love to see next in our Romantic Piano Concerto series (and who would perform it)?"

Shouldn't we take the opportunity to quickly organize a collective reflection, justify our suggestions, and then answer (and add comments) under Hyperion's post to make it somehow viral? It could be easy to bring some attention to "our agenda"!

Didn't we decide that the C major work was probably a misattribution?

We did, in an other post, last January. Well, it was my opinion, and Double-A's as well...

A concert performance of William Wallace's Grand Legendary Opera Lurline will be given on Friday July 26, at 7PM, at the National Concert Hall, in Dublin.

https://www.nch.ie/all-events-listing/nso-lurline-opera-concert-performance/

My only doubt is that Volkmann mentions a prominent organ part in the slow movement and, unless I've missed something, an organ isn't mentioned in the instrumentation given on the Répertoire de la Symphonie Française listing.

First of all, thanks for the good words, Mark!
The organ part is in Symphony No.28. My post was related to No.28 because Tingry's Symphony (entry No.6) was a contender in this same competition. My original post might have been a little bit misleading (I've edited it since), since I misread Volkmann's letter, but Symphonies No.28 and No.6 were two different symphonies!

It's a shame, but sadly it's pretty clear that Alan [Krueck] misidentified No.28 as Silas' A major Symphony. Whilst that wasn't premièred or published until 1863 (i.e. safely after the Vienna competition), the piece as published isn't a Symphonie-Ode, it lacks a motto and it's slow movement (Adagio quasi Andante rather than Andante) not only comes second in order but also lacks an organ part. I can only assume that Alan hadn't seen the score now available at IMSLP before he made his guess.

So, having eliminated Silas, I wonder who the composer of the intriguing Symphonie-Ode was?

I couldn't be more sure that I've solved the mystery regarding the authorship of the Symphony identified as No.6 in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Symphony Competition. I found the answer thanks to the motto "Nous, tandis que de joie...". And here is how I did it.

In the 1878 edition of "Mémoires de la Société académique des sciences, arts, belles-lettres, agriculture et industrie de Saint-Quentin", on page 58, appears the "Rapport de M. C. Tingry [...] sur le concours de composition musicale" (a report by C. Tingry on a musical competition for the composition of a cantata, held by the Société académique de Saint-Quentin - France - in 1877). It is available here:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4156500/f56.item

The winning cantata was performed for the first time on November 26th, 1877, and the complete programme of the concert is given on page 62. Tingry, who was the Directeur de l'École Municipale de Musique de Cambrai (Cambrai is a little less than 50km from Saint-Quentin), and a member of the board for the competition, was given the opportunity to conduct his own Symphonie en La, inédite (unpublished).

Each of the four movements of that symphony are listed, and they have highly descriptive titles, including the second one, Presto : La Nuit, Chasse fantastique, and the third one, Adagio : Hymne du Matin. One more detail is added: following that list of movements, one can read the words of Victor Hugo, beginning with "Nous, tandis que de joie au loin tout vibre et tremble". Those two titles and that verse are perfect matches for the ones given in Volkmann's letter about the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde competition about the No.6!

The entry for Volkmann's letter is available here, beginning on page 175:
https://archive.org/details/briefemiteinembi00volk/page/176/mode/1up?q=Motyo

Back to Tingry, in the same report, beginning on page 63, an article by a local newspaper is published, following the performance of the symphony, with an enthusiastic review on pages 66-67.

But what about the date of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Symphony Competition vs that 1877 performance, and where is the manuscript of this remarkable symphony by Tingry located? The answers are to be found on the website of the Répertoire de la Symphonie Française entre 1830 et 1870, and it includes the date when Tingry began to compose his symphony, 10 Mars 1860 (March 10th, 1860):

http://www.ums3323.paris-sorbonne.fr/SYMPHONIES/indexbd.php?ope=oeuvres&select_oeuvres=45

The instrumental parts are available at the BNF:

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb448909493

And the orchestral score is there as well:

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb448909509

There it is, No.6 in A major, submitted for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Symphony Competition, is by Célestin Tingry (1819-1892)!


I rest my case!

The bio written by Hoffmeister has been digitized by the National Library of the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, it's only in Czech. But for those who can understand it, I suppose it is one of the most comprehensive work on Klička and his music:

https://kramerius5.nkp.cz/view/uuid:0c2c7220-3287-11e3-a5bb-005056827e52?page=uuid:1e9a0f80-6bc1-11e3-af76-5ef3fc9ae867

Just to recap, this is the reference Eric found back in 2012 to a library record in Krakow, Poland:
https://opac.rism.info/rism/Record/rism300257497?documentid=300257497

Checking this entry in RISM, I have some doubts regarding the attribution of this symphony to Albert Dietrich. The title mentions "Con Fundamento Basso" which seems unlikely for a symphony written around 1850, unless Albert Dietrich was trying to compose some pastiche in the baroque/classical style...

page of an abortive Kickstarter-ish project to record Kauffmann's 2 piano trios

There are some excerpts intertwined with an interview (in German only) of the Piano Trio op. 9 on YouTube, featuring the same performers:

Pianist Simon Callaghan announced a few days ago that the London Piano Quartet will be performing the two piano quartets by Ernest Walker (and other works by Bridge and Schumann), on October 29, at the Balliol College Music Society. I certainly wish I could be there to hear that performance!

Question for Mr Purton : you said in a post on this forum in December 2021  that a String Sextet and the Septet were being recorded. I was expecting to see these on Volume 2. So I guess we should expect a Volume 3, should we? Or were they discarded?

Thanks!

On recording I only find a piano left hand transcription by him of the Miserere from Verdi's Il Trovatore (Act IV scene 12) from a 2017 CD.

Actually, his Piano Trio in D minor, op. 130, is available on CD:

https://www.amazon.com/Promenades-Sentimentales-Ernest-Chausson/dp/B008LC8UJM/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?crid=3B6W5YU96NVQB&keywords=pfeiffer+trio&qid=1676347372&sprefix=pfeiffer+trio%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-12

HOLMES's La Montagne Noire in Dortmund seems to have disappeared. Perhaps it was so dark they couldn't find it.

According to the newsletter sent earlier today by Palazzetto Bru Zane, one of their teams is still working on editing a score for Holmes's La Montagne Noire. Nothing about a coming performance, though.

In the same newsletter, they let us know that another team recently found scores by Félicien David and Cécile Chaminade that were previously considered to be lost. No details about which music it is (they certainly will say more eventually), but an exciting news, still!

I think Gallica has it, yea. They have the volume of JdM it appears in. Then one downloads. Takes some searching.

Thanks Eric! I remember seeing that specific journal on Gallica some times ago, but I believe the sheet music wasn't scanned yet. I'm glad it's there after all!

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Duettino for  oboe and cello  pub.by Journal de Musique

I've been looking for that one for a while. No luck so far among the digital libraries I've explored. Anyone luckier?

I suppose this article might be a little romanticized, but that's quite a life she lived!

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26349973/american-woman-by-misreading-stars/