Hans Rott News
Austrian composer
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Hans Rott)
- pipe organ, organ
- Romantic music, classical music
- Austria
- composer, organist
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2023-03-27 02:42:00
[…] a bit more sparkle. Then we got what turned out to be the highlight of the program, contralto Sara Couden singing five songs by Alma Mahler. They are luscious, with considerable charm; Alma was talented and we can hate on Gus for pressuring her to quit composing. Couden has a gorgeous voice of a rare type and brought a beautiful line to these. I would have liked more consonants, it's true.Then the Big Piece, Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1 in E Major, his only mature, complete symphony. Well, by "mature," what I mean is "he wrote it between the ages of 20 and 22." Now, a few composers have written masterpieces at that age - I'm looking at you, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn - but most have not.I'm not going to put this thing on any list of great symphonies, ever. I'm....sort of glad to have heard it once. […]
2022-12-22 12:58:00
[…] CPE Bach, JS Bach, Sally Beamish, Berio, Birtwistle, Arthur Bliss, Silvie Bodorova, Lili Boulanger, Boulez, Britten, Byrd, Francisco Coll, Louis Couperin, Tansy Davies, František Domažlický, Hanns Eisler, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Fauré, Morton Feldman, Franck, Goehr, Dieter Gogg, Helen Grime, Reynaldo Hahn, Handel, WH Harris, Henry VIII, Fred Hersch, Hindemith, John Ireland, Ives, Joel Järventausta, Zoltán Jeney, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Oliver Leith, Scott McLaughlin, Mendelssohn, Tristan Murail, Parry, Poulenc, Juta Pranulytė, Rameau, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Roslavets, Hans Rott, Erwin Schulhoff, Scriabin, Jack Sheen, Valentin Silvestrov, Antonio Soler, Turnage, Viktor Ullmann, Galina Ustvolskaya, Varèse, Aleksandr Vustin, George Walker, Jennifer Walshe, Walton, Webern, Weill, Judith Weir, WolfOperas7 Wagner5 Mozart, Puccini3 Britten, Janáček2 Monteverdi, Purcell, Strauss, Stravinsky1 Bartók, Berg, Bizet, Blow, Laura Bowler, Tom Coult, Delius, Clemens von Franckenstein, Handel, Kurtág, Rimsky-Korsakov, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Ethel Smyth, Tchaikovsky, Viktor Ullmann, Freya Waley-Cohen, Weill Overall 12 Mozart11 Wagner6 Beethoven, Brahms, Janáček, Schumann, Strauss5 Liszt, Puccini4 Bartók, Britten, Messiaen, […]
2022-10-27 16:18:11
Jakub Hrůša/Bamberger Symphoniker(Deutsche Grammophon)His friend Mahler called him a genius, but there’s little in this recording – fine though it is – of Rott’s first symphony to persuade us of thatExamples of composers who did not live long enough to fulfil their early promise are dotted throughout music history, and his admirers would no doubt claim that
2022-10-21 18:19:01
Some time in the late 1980s, questions were raised as to whether Gustav Mahler really wrote his first two symphonies. The issue arose after a recording appeared of an E-minor symphony by Hans Rott, a fellow-student of Mahler’s at the Vienna Conservatoire. Rott’s symphony was found to contain trademark phrases from Mahler’s first two symphonies, [...]
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