I think Heinrich Marschner is a very underrated composer who absolutely deserves more attention. I view him as a kind of hybrid between Beethoven and Wagner. I think that without Marschner's operas, Wagner's music would've been very different and therefore the history of music itself would've gone in a totally different direction.
What is not to like. The opening is heaven. I played this on the 27.3.22 and was 1st horn so had the amazing intro. Just beautiful. And so not known. We need to get this this out there. A member of another orchestra I play in was in the audience and said that Solihull need to do thiss too. Woo Hoo. xxx
Hans Heiling (Jan Svatoš in Czech) is about German/Bohemian mythology apparently. I just read Marschner was an important link btw Weber and Wagner. But one would assume that Dvorak left his Wagnerian period totally behind him at the end of his carreer.
@@classicalmusic3334 The Encyclopedia of Music, by Max Wade-Matthews and Wendy Thompson. There's a brief segment about Marschner under "Other Composers of the Era" in the Romantic Period chapter.
I think Heinrich Marschner is a very underrated composer who absolutely deserves more attention. I view him as a kind of hybrid between Beethoven and Wagner. I think that without Marschner's operas, Wagner's music would've been very different and therefore the history of music itself would've gone in a totally different direction.
What is not to like. The opening is heaven. I played this on the 27.3.22 and was 1st horn so had the amazing intro. Just beautiful. And so not known. We need to get this this out there. A member of another orchestra I play in was in the audience and said that Solihull need to do thiss too. Woo Hoo. xxx
5:19 I love that break.
Excellent!
Dvorak 9 fourth movement main motif
Hans Heiling (Jan Svatoš in Czech) is about German/Bohemian mythology apparently. I just read Marschner was an important link btw Weber and Wagner. But one would assume that Dvorak left his Wagnerian period totally behind him at the end of his carreer.
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Fun fact: the composer literally starved to death.
Really? Where did you read that? I haven't found it on Wikipedia.
Considering that I'm a distant blood relative of the composer I would be very intrigued if you could elaborate on that.
@@classicalmusic3334 The Encyclopedia of Music, by Max Wade-Matthews and Wendy Thompson. There's a brief segment about Marschner under "Other Composers of the Era" in the Romantic Period chapter.
@@joshscores3360 So it was Lortzing who starved to death then, and not Marschner?
@@classicalmusic3334 Oh I'm so sorry, there was a typo.