Ödön Mihalovich (1842-1929)

[Alan Howe]

How about this for an unknown composer? (From Wikipedia)

Ödön (Edmund) Péter József de Mihalovich (born Fericsánci, September 13, 1842 - died Budapest, April 22, 1929) was a Hungarian composer and music educator.
Mihalovich first studied in Pest with Mihály Mosonyi; in 1865 he moved to Leipzig, studying there with Moritz Hauptmann, and in 1866 he completed his studies in Munich with Peter Cornelius. Mihalovich then moved back to Pest; in 1872, he became president of the city's Wagner Society, and in 1887 he followed Franz Liszt as the head of the Budapest Academy of Music, a position he held up to his death.
While Mihalovich's works are thoroughly Wagnerian in style, he was supportive of Hungarian nationalism and encouraged composers such as Béla Bartók and Zoltan Kodály.
A symphony in D minor was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1883.

Works (selection)

Operas
Hagbart und Signe (1867-1881), prémieres: Dresden, 1882 by Franz Wüllner; Budapest, 1886 by Sándor Erkel.
Wieland der Schmied (1876-78, unperformed)
Eliane (1885-87), prémieres: Budapest, 1908 by István Kerner; Vienna 1909 by Karl Gille.
Toldi (The Knight Toldi) (1888-1891), prémiere: Budapest, 1893 by Anton Resnicek.
Toldi's Love (Toldi szerelme - the second version of Toldi with new 2nd finale and 3rd act), prémiere: Budapest, 1895 by Arthur Nikisch.
Fragments and planned operas:
König Fjalar (1877-1884, 3 versions, destroyed)
Faust (?, only two scenes are written)
Tihanyi visszhang (The Echo of Tihany /Hungarian fairy-tale/, after 1895, only two scenes are written.)

Symphonies
No. 1 in D minor (1879), prémiere: Budapest,1885.
No. 2 in B minor (1892), prémiere: Budapest, 1893.
No. 3 in A minor, 'Pathetique' (In memoriam Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary, 1900), prémiere: Budapest, 1901.
No. 4 in C minor (1902), prémiere: Budapest, 1903.

Symphonic Ballads
The Ghost ship (Rémhajó/Der Geisterschiff), prémiere: Budapest, 1871; Cassel, 1872.
The Mermaid (Sellő/Die Nixe), prémiere: Budapest, 1875; Wiesbaden, 1878.
Hero and Leander (Heró és Leander/ Hero und Leander), prémiere: Budapest, 1879.
Funeral music for Ferenc Deák (Gyászhangok nagyzenekarra/ Trauerklänge), prémiere: Budapest, 1876.
La Ronde du Sabbat (Boszorkányszombat), prémiere: Budapest, 1879.
Faust Phantasy (Faust-ábránd / Eine Faust-Phantasie), prémiere: Leipzig, 1883; Budapest 1896.
Pan's death (Pán halála / Pan's Tod), prémiere: Budapest, 1898; Berlin, 1902.

Other works
Choral works
Chamber music

[Mark Thomas]

Just the sort of list to get the saliva dribbling! Has any of his music ever been recorded, I wonder?

[Alan Howe]

There are some songs on a Hungaroton CD:
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Hungaroton/HCD32043
Excerpts here:
http://www.hungarotonmusic.com/classical/songs-p3683.html
The idiom sounds similar to that of Hans Sommer...

[eschiss1]

The 1st symphony, but nothing else, can be found (in full score) at IMSLP (here).