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Austria
Author_Harold Truscott
Autobiographical Sketch
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English-speaking world
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Franz Schmidt
Harold Truscott
Hungary
large-scale symphonic form
lyric genius
opera
oratorio
organ
quartets
symphonies
twentieth century
Vienna
Vienna Philharmonic
Product details
- ISBN 9780907689119
- Weight: 418g
- Dimensions: 143 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1984
- Publisher: Toccata Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A major step in the rediscovery of one of the towering composers of the twentieth century; this brings to Schmidt's music the scholarship it so richly merits.
Franz Schmidt is increasingly being recognised as a major composer. His music covers symphonies, quartets, opera and oratorio, and works and organ. In all of these genres he proves himself a master of large-scale symphonic form and one of the most substantial lyric geniuses of all time. Schmidt spent most of his life in Austria [he died in Vienna in 1939] where his importance was universally agreed.
Here, Harold Truscott, the outstanding authorityon Schmidt in the English-speaking world, examines the orchestral works, taking the reader and listener through each of these mighty scores. Introduced by the `Personal Recollections' of Hans Keller, who knew Schmidt well in pre-World-War-II Vienna, the book also features the first-ever translation into English of Schmidt's Autobiographical Sketch, where the composer tells of his early childhood in Hungary, his teenage years near Vienna and his life as acellist in the Vienna Philharmonic.
HAROLD TRUSCOTT is a composer and writer. He was Principal Lecturer in Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic and has performed widely as a pianist in recital, broadcast and concert work.
Harold Truscott
