Release Date: 30 April 2003
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099381727
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: ZIEHRER
Description
Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922)Volume 4Without doubt, the greatest of all rivals to the superiorityof the Strauss brothers was Carl Michael Ziehrer. His long musical career hadsimilarities with that of the younger Johann Strauss, with the noted exceptionthat Ziehrer was three times a military bandmaster, a fact that introduced anoften brash and swaggering style into his compositions. This, combined with theinfluence of local folk-music, provides a recipe that is refreshingly differentfrom his contemporaries. Ziehrer was launched with a brand new orchestra in1863 at the Dianasaal by Carl Haslinger, an event sprung by the publisher asrevenge against the Strauss brothers because of a financial disagreement. Thiswas not entirely spontaneous, however, as Ziehrer's father, a prosperoushatter, had financed his son's musical education at the Vienna Conservatory inreturn for a contract with Haslinger to publish his compositions. Despitethe initial fanfare, Ziehrer found the competition from all three Straussbrothers daunting, and often had to perform in the suburbs to make a living.Nevertheless, as he tirelessly pursued his career with one engagement afteranother, his activities soon attracted the attention of the press; his stylewas likened in one early article to that of Joseph Lanner, who of course hadbeen the older Strauss's prime competitor. Probably as a result of financialpressures, he accepted a three-year contract with the army as a bandmaster in1870. Returning to civilian life he formed an orchestra in record time to playat the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition. He also founded the musical journalDeutsche Musik-Zeitung which became one of the prime sources of musicalinformation of the late nineteenth century. Ziehrerchanged his publisher to Doblinger, and rejoined the army for another spell,discharging himself in 1877. It was soon after that he took over in Vienna manyof Eduard Strauss's musicians who were reluctant to follow the latter on anextended overseas tour, naming the orchestra 'The Former Eduard StraussOrchestra'. This led Eduard Strauss to take out an injunction against the useof the title, which had, in fact, been demanded by the musicians themselves. In1879 Ziehrer visited Bucharest with a reconstituted orchestra and becameclosely involved with the Royal family, and then went to Budapest to stage anow lost operetta. He met his future wife Marianne Edelmann, a popular operettasinger, while performing in Berlin in 1881. Itwas not until Ziehrer's third spell as a bandmaster with the Hoch-undDeutschmeister Regiment in 1885 that he fully recovered his reputation inVienna and within days he was raising the standards of military bandperformance to previously unknown heights, attracting huge crowds. At civilianconcerts many of his players dropped the
Tracklisting
Nishizaki:Nzso:Judd:Dou Dou
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Soloists
Nizhizaki/Gumma So/Shek
Goodwin:New Zealand Symp Orch
Walter:Razumovsky Symp Orch
Pollack
