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John Marks, in his Stereophile Fifth Element column #73, recommended a number of semi-obscure works that he found to be quite interesting and worthy. One of these was Hans Rott's Symphony in E-major, of which I had heard but never had heard, so Marks' column got me off my duff and I went ahead and purchased the version he recommended, the Segerstam on Bis. I listened to it once, then I moved house, and didn't hear again until today. It is a really interesting piece and while Marks makes much of the Rott's influence on Mahler - listen to the trumpet call in the 3rd movement and you call hear one of the "Wunderhorn" symphonies - Rott was clearly someone with a distinctive voice. Had he lived......this is a piece that everyone with a predilection for late Romantic works should hear.
About the same time I purchased the Rott/Bruckner string quartet coupling, and remember remarking to myself what a wild piece the Rott is - need to find that recording and play it again.
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The whole Rott/Mahler thing is a basket of eels. The article that ran in LISTEN magazine a while ago painted a rather unflattering picture of Mahler, but, I do not believe that to be the scholarly consensus.
I think that you can be inspired by someone without actually stealing from them, but the question of when musical emulation becomes stealing is intellectual, legally, and societally vexing.
I can look anyone in the eye and say that the start of the Star Trek original TV series theme music (up to the rhythm change to a Latin-ish beat) could not exist but for Mahler's Symphonies 1, 7, and 9, but I do not accuse Alexander Courage of theft.
ATB,
jm
I remember the one a few years ago when you did a song submission contest, which I think was meant to honor pop songs that are arty.. I worked hard on my submission only to find that somehow it disappeared into thin air. I think that one of my songs was "Surf's Up" by the Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, but you had already taken the best one anyway, which was "Fountain of Sorrow".
As great a song as it is, I can't listen to "Fountain of Sorrow" without remembering that the ex-wife who JB thought was doing better, later killed herself.
JM
There's no association with Phyllis. He composed it well before she committed suicide.
I made the mistake of writing my earlier post while listening to the music. Then I heard the 4th movement.....you would think this was a long-lost symphony by Mahler.
Maybe we should say that Mahler sounds like Rott......
I've had the Segerstam/BIS since it was released in the early 90's. I, too, find this work to be surprisingly wonderful. The first time I listened to it the similarities to Mahler were most striking (until I learned that this sym predates Mahler 1). I'm pretty sure I had one or two other recordings of it in the years since Segerstam but they are no longer in my collection.
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