Marcel Tyberg (27 Jan)
Joe Roberts
He died at Auschwitz in 1944. His actual death date isn't known, but recorded as 31 December 1944 -- which only means, he was dead by the end of the year.
... Today is also Mozart's birthday, by coincidence.
Back to Tyberg. Did anyone hear the performance of his Third Symphony on NPR 'Performance Today'?
According to Wikipedia, the composer lived in Italy, relatively safe until the day of Mussolini's hanging when the Nazis assumed more control over the region where he'd been living. Knowing he was probably 'marked', he rushed to complete the scoring of the work before they came to get him. He entrusted the manuscript to his student (of harmony). That student many years later came to the USA and kept it for 60 years, before sending it with a suggestion of evaluation to the Buffalo Philharmonic.
There's a spoken 'evaluation' of the work recorded on YouTube, by the orchestra's conductor, JoAnn Falletta.
During listening tonight I had several interruptions, regrettable but unavoidable. Did I hear the symphony with just three movements, or did I miss a gross amount of it?
I'm wondering what the unfortunate man's rush to completion meant. He knew he would soon be taken away (he was 1/16th Jewish). I'm wondering about how much of his work he could 'complete'.
The Wiki account is quite moving, if you'd like to explore his biography.
Joe
Alan P Dawes
<cd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Back to Tyberg. Did anyone hear the performance of his Third Symphony
> on NPR 'Performance Today'?
I've just bought the recent NAXOS release of the 3rd symphony (8.572236)
played by the Buffalo Phil conducted by JoAnn Falletta and Piano trio in
F, I've only had time to listen to the Symphony which I really enjoyed -
reminiscent of Bruckner and Mahler with a nod at a 19th century Rondo for
the last movement - well played and recorded. It's in the form of a
traditional 4 movement symphony.
Alan
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