Ethel Smyth recalls Brahms

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robcat2075
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by robcat2075 »

British composer [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth]Ethel Smyth, mentioned in another thread, studied at the conservatory in Leipzig for a year but found it lacking and left to study with the Austrian composer [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Herzogenberg][color=#404000]Heinrich von Herzogenberg. His social circle intersected with Clara Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and many others.

Here, reading from her memoir in 1927, she speaks of meeting Brahms.

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by harrisonreed »

It's recalled? Will I get sick if I listen to it?
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by NathanSobieralski »

Ethel Smyth is a fascinating person and composer. Her Opera "Der Wald" was performed by the Metropolitan Opera in 1903, and it would be another 113 years before another opera penned by a woman composer would be performed by that opera. Der Wald in particular is wonderfully composed and has a fascinating story line, IMO. Worth checking out.
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by chromebone »

Thanks for sharing this. Discoveries like this are pure gold.
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by robcat2075 »

[quote="NathanSobieralski"]Ethel Smyth is a fascinating person and composer.[/quote]

There's a lot of 19th Century composers who, although admittedly not as wonderful as Beethoven or Brahms or Bruckner, have at least a couple of good pieces in them and yet we never hear them in concerts.

[quote="harrisonreed"]It's recalled? Will I get sick if I listen to it?[/quote]

You'll be sick...with envy!
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by Posaunus »

[quote="robcat2075"]British composer Ethel Smyth ...

Here, reading from her memoir in 1927, she speaks of meeting Brahms.[/quote]

Illuminating!

Thanks, Rob.