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.
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