tjguitar, First off, please steer clear of the Profil CD!! Although the performances are generally good, the performers have opted for several very odd--and totally unnecessary--cuts in the Trio and the Sonata. For the life of me, I can't figure out why they felt the need to disfigure this music. If...

Herr Rachold, Thank you so much for your response. The new insights into the dates of Korngold's lessons with Zemlinsky were very interesting, and they actually provided an indirect answer to my Fuchs question. Speaking of Weingartner--The first four of his seven symphonies, along with some shorter ...

Hi all, I'm trying to get some clarification on a couple of dates and was wondering if one of you might be able to me help out. 1. When did Korngold start studying with Robert Fuchs and when did these lesson officially end? 2. When did Korngold play his compositions for Mahler? June 1906 appears to ...

Hi all, My love of Korngold's film music is second to none, but one aspect of his career that has always puzzled me was his "decision" or "choice" to focus almost exclusively on film composition during the war years. Some sources imply that he did so out as an act of artistic "protest" against the s...

Hi all, After lurking around this forum for a couple of weeks, I decided to register. By way of a first posting, I thought I'd introduce myself. I can't recall my first exposure to Korngold's music, but I got to know the film scores well enough to propose analyzing a number of them for my master's t...