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[edit] Variations on a Hussar's Song

I have a recording of this lovely piece, but not the score. The rhythm of the main theme intrigues me. It appears to be 2 bars of 15/4 followed by 2 bars of 23/4, although I suspect it's more like:

  • 3 bars of 4/4
  • 1 bar of 3/4
  • repeat the above 2 lines
  • 5 bars of 4/4
  • 1 bar of 3/4
  • repeat the above 2 lines.

Can anybody with a score confirm this? Thanks. JackofOz 01:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

You're absolutely spot-on, Jack!

Neil Saunders

Thank you, Neil. Do you know where the score is available? JackofOz 13:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's currently in print, Jack. If it is, you might be able to order it from the Franz-Schmidt Gesellschaft in Vienna (who are housed in the same building as the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde). They certainly have copies of the symphonies in miniature scores. Their address is Bosendorferstrasse Nr. 12 (the first "o" should have an umlaut, of course), A -1010 Wien, Musikvereinsgebaude, Austria. (e-mail: office@franzschmidtgesellschaft.at)

Good luck!

Neil

Great. Thanks again. JackofOz 02:21, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schmidt and the Nazis

Man verzeihe mir, dass ich hier in deutscher Sprache schreibe. Ich möchte nämlich nicht, dass wegen eventueller Grammatikfehler in meinem keineswegs vollkommenen Englisch das Folgende an Verständlichkeit einbüßt: Schmidts letztes Werk, die Kantate "Deutsche Auferstehung", ist zwar auf einen nationalsozialistischen Text komponiert, aber meines Wissens geschah das keineswegs, weil Schmidt sich zu Hitler bekannte. Er, als berühmtester lebender Komponist Österreichs, bekam nach dem "Anschluss" den Auftrag zu diesem Werk. Er widmete sich der Komposition nur halbherzig und hinterließ sie in sehr fragmentarischem Zustand (später vollendet von Robert Wagner). Lieber schrieb Schmidt, schon schwer krank, an anderen Werken ua. an einem Klavierquintett. Ich denke, dass man die Nicht-Fertigstellung der Kantate als Zeichen dafür ansehen kann, dass der Komponist keineswegs NS-Sympathisant war. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Adrian_L.

Translation via 'babelfish':
One forgives me that I write here in German language. I would not like that because of possible grammar errors in my by any means perfect English the following at comprehensibility does not lose: Schmidts last work, which is Kantate "German Auferstehung", on a National Socialist text composed, but my knowledge did not happen that by any means, because Schmidt itself to Hitler well-known. He, as a most famous living composer of Austria, got the order after the "connection" to this work. He dedicated himself to the composition only halfheartedly and left her in very fragmentary condition (later completed from Robert wagner). Schmidt, already seriously ill, rather wrote at other works ua. at a Klavierquintett. I think that one can regard the non--completion of the Kantate as indications of it that the composer was not by any means LV sympathizer.
Pf