FESTLICHES PRÄLUDIUM FÜR GROSSES ORCHESTER UND ORGEL zur Einweihung des Wiener Konzerthauses am 19. Oktober 1913...Orchester-Partitur (zum Studiengebrauch)

Berlin: Adolph Furstner. 1913. First edition. Miniature full score. 14 cm x 24.5 cm. 75 pp. [PN] 7004.


"One can easily make fun of this occasional work, written to open the new Vienna Konzerthaus. Norman Del Mar, in his essential 3-volume study, manages to point out all its flaws. Chief among them, the work has very little contrast. First, it stays mostly in C major, with one rare look-see at a distant key, for nine minutes. Second, it starts out at a grandiloquent level and not only maintains it, but tries to rise even higher, without having the necessary material, almost entirely through the orchestration (symphonic organ, rather than concertante; six to twelve herald trumpets stationed on either side of the orchestra). Despite all this, it makes a great noise. It may not be profound, but it does provoke a definite 'wow.'" (Steve Schwartz, Classical Net) (9919)

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