Yesterday, I wrote: < I'm just saying that you oughtn't fret over whether or not you have a "good" <recording; in this case any that doesn't willfully misrepresent what <Franz put to paper (did I once read that this was actually written by <Richard, or am I mixing this up with something else?) will do quite <nicely
And Hans replied today: <Hello Peter, you are mixing things up indeed. R.Strauss <wrote a piece Introduction, Thema & Var. Op.17 at age 14 <(1878) but it has nothing to do with this op.13 by Franz <Strauss. It exists with orchestral accompaniment as does his <original fantasy op.6 & other pieces, I discovered two <pieces for two horns in E & orchestra by Franz Strauss, <composed in his early years. The Strauss Society in Garmisch <did not know them. My source is reliable as the owner was <just 17 years younger than Franz Strauss´ son Richard. The <composition date is given on the front page as 1847. The two <scores are part of the heritage of the famous horn player <who´s biography I´m writing at the moment. He left over 3000 <pages on program notes & critics (concert reviews) collected <throughout his long career. He eventually played under <famous Wagner conductor Hans Richter manytimes. More news <later, as soon as the biography is completed, a very <honourful task for me, as the player was one of my <played with some of his students for his six last birthdays <before he died at age 93. Well, I guess that I am my own best illustration of what I frequently criticize others on this list for. I should have gotten up off of my posterior and tracked down the information that I dimly (and incorrectly) recalled before stating something, no matter how provisionally, that I really did not know to be fact. The up side of this is that Hans' reply reveals some very interesting news about Franz and Richard S's horn compositions and also the biographical work that he himself is engaged in. I await the eventual publication of this work that promises to be of extreme historical interest and not just to the hardcore horn freak. Peter Hirsch (Hmmm, now let me see. I wonder if anyone on this list can put enough of Hans' clues to figure out just who he means. This guessing game puts me in mind of Walter Hecht's Significa back in the "old days" of the list in the twentieth century) _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
