Zubin Mehta - Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 (1972) Hi-Res
BAND/ARTIST: Zubin Mehta
- Title: Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
- Year Of Release: 1972
- Label: HDTT
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks) | 24 Bit/192 kHz
- Total Time: 00:49:11
- Total Size: 1,4 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Franz Schmidt (22 December 1874 – 11 February 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist. As
teacher of piano, cello and counterpoint and composition at the Academy, Schmidt trained numerous
musicians, conductors and composers who later achieved fame. Among his best-known students were the
pianist Friedrich Wührer and Alfred Rosé (son of Arnold Rosé, the legendary founder of the Rosé Quartet,
Konzertmeister of the Vienna Philharmonic and brother-in-law of Gustav Mahler). Among the composers were
Theodor Berger, Marcel Rubin and Alfred Uhl. He received many tokens of the high esteem in which he was
held, notably the Franz-Josef Order, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna. While Schmidt
found himself courted by the Nazi administration, he rejected a commission and devoted his remaining time
to works for one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.
As a composer, Schmidt was slow to develop, but his reputation, at least in Austria, saw a steady growth from
the late 1890s until his death in 1939. In his music, Schmidt continued to develop the Viennese classic-romantic traditions he inherited from Schubert, Brahms and his own master, Bruckner. He also takes forward the
exotic ‘gypsy’ style of Liszt and Brahms. His works are monumental in form and rmly tonal in language,
though quite often innovative in their designs and clearly open to some of the new developments in musical
syntax initiated by Mahler and Schoenberg. Although Schmidt did not write a lot of chamber music, what he
did write, in the opinion of such critics as Wilhelm Altmann, was important and of high quality.
Tracks:
1. Allegro molto moderato 15:35
2. Adagio 15:11
3a. Molto vivace 15:30
3b. Allegro molto moderato - reprise 2:49
Personnel:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Zubin Mehta
teacher of piano, cello and counterpoint and composition at the Academy, Schmidt trained numerous
musicians, conductors and composers who later achieved fame. Among his best-known students were the
pianist Friedrich Wührer and Alfred Rosé (son of Arnold Rosé, the legendary founder of the Rosé Quartet,
Konzertmeister of the Vienna Philharmonic and brother-in-law of Gustav Mahler). Among the composers were
Theodor Berger, Marcel Rubin and Alfred Uhl. He received many tokens of the high esteem in which he was
held, notably the Franz-Josef Order, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna. While Schmidt
found himself courted by the Nazi administration, he rejected a commission and devoted his remaining time
to works for one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.
As a composer, Schmidt was slow to develop, but his reputation, at least in Austria, saw a steady growth from
the late 1890s until his death in 1939. In his music, Schmidt continued to develop the Viennese classic-romantic traditions he inherited from Schubert, Brahms and his own master, Bruckner. He also takes forward the
exotic ‘gypsy’ style of Liszt and Brahms. His works are monumental in form and rmly tonal in language,
though quite often innovative in their designs and clearly open to some of the new developments in musical
syntax initiated by Mahler and Schoenberg. Although Schmidt did not write a lot of chamber music, what he
did write, in the opinion of such critics as Wilhelm Altmann, was important and of high quality.
Tracks:
1. Allegro molto moderato 15:35
2. Adagio 15:11
3a. Molto vivace 15:30
3b. Allegro molto moderato - reprise 2:49
Personnel:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Zubin Mehta
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