![]() (So this, I think, is the first time in the series that we don’t have a video available on YouTube, but it certainly won’t be the last. Furthermore, Fuchs' counterpoint is extraordinarily elegant: the subtle interplay of his textures is invariably expert and assured.Performed by the Sibelius Academy Quartet Brahms has often been rightly cited as an influence upon Fuchs' style, but Fuchs' pellucid orchestration derives from Mendelssohn while his harmonic practice is often reminiscent of Schumann's inimitable idiom. Putting aside inaccurate and dyspeptic dictionary entries, Fuchs was a polished and fluent composer whose attractive and often touching music struck a civilized compromise between fervid romanticism and poised classicism. I read this in a program note of the American Symphony Orchestra's website: He disdained self-promoting and showed little interest in seeing his works performed. It seems that Fuchs was better known as a teacher than as a composer. Over the years his pupils were to include Enescu, Korngold, Mahler, Schmidt Sibelius, Wolf and Zemlinsky. In 1875 he taught at the Vienna Conservatoire. He was well acquainted with Brahms, who praised his works. It will be my first encounter with any of Fuchs' music. I just bought his 3rd symphony on the Thorofon label. Solid composer in the Schubert/Schumann/Brahms tradition. Overture: Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, Op.59 (Leipzig, 1897)ĭie Königsbraut, in 3 acts, Op.46 (1889) (librettist: Ignaz Schnitzer) premiered in Viennaĭie Teufelsglocke, in 3 acts (w/o Op.) (1891) (librettist: Bernhard Buchbinder) Harp Fantasia in G, op.85 (Vienna, ?1908) Prelude and Fugue, for organ Orchestral Musicģ fantasias for organ, in C, op.87, in e, op.91, in D, op.101 = ![]() Variations in d, pf 4 hands, op.10 (Leipzig, ?1874) friend of Brahms, who was impressed by the Symphony No.1 in C - Fuchs won the Beethoven prize for it by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1886Ĥ string qtartets: in E, op.58 (Leipzig, 1897), in a, op.62 (Berlin, 1899), in C, op.71 (Vienna, 1903), in A, op.106, ed.taught musicians such as: Ernst Decsey, Mahler, Sibelius, Franz Schmidt, Schreker, Wolf and Zemlinsky.conductor of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.born in Deutschlandsberg district of Styria, Austria, February 15, 1847.
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