Hugo Reinhold

[jacquie]

Help!  My students in the piano lab gave a short bio on the composer they were performing that day.  One of my students played the Reinhold Impromptu #3.  We can only find two sentences about his life.  I have looked everywhere and asked collegues to investigate with no results.  Does anyone know where I can get info on this composer?  Thanks

[birba]

Never heard of him.  I googled him and there isn't much.  there's some music (that impromptu, as well) at IMSLP.  I bet thalbergmad would know a lot about him.   

[stevebob]

From Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, fifth edition:

(b. Vienna, 3 Mar. 1854; d. Vienna, 4 Sept. 1935).

Austrian composer.  He was a choir-boy of the court chapel in Vienna and a student at the Convervatorium der Musikfreunde until 1874, when he worked with Bruckner, Dessoff and Epstein under the endowment of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and obtained a silver medal.  His many compositions include pianoforte music and songs, a string Quartet in A major (op. 18), a Suite in five movements for strings and pianoforte, and a Prelude, Minuet and Fugue for string orchestra.  The two latter were performed at the Vienna Philharmonic Concerts of 9 Dec. 1877 and 17 Nov. 1878, respectively, and were praised by the Vienna critic of the M.M.R. for the delicate character and absence of undue pretension.  The Quartet was executed by Hellmesberger.

At least two volumes of piano pieces were once published by G. Schirmer.  This entry was in a Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics catalog from the early 1900s:

[thalbergmad]

Don't know a great deal about this chap or his music. My fetish for works for Piano & Orchestra naturally drew me to his Suite Op.7 a while back, but I recall expecting Brahms and finding Liszt, but this was an early work.

I expect there are some very interesting works that could well be worth reviving.

Thal

[jacquie]

Thanks so much.  It is amazing to me how there is so little information about Reinhold.  He was a minor composer; but there is alot of info about the minor composers.