Weingartner 6th symphony

[eschiss1]

just noticed that (as of January, I see) and thanks to Cypressdome, the score of Weingartner's 6th symphony "Tragica", "Im gedenken" the death of Schubert, has been uploaded (from Hathitrust) to IMSLP. We have or used to have a radio recording of it in the Downloads (sic Uploads) section, and there's a commercial recording on cpo. 1928 work but more Romantic than quite a few works composed in 1908...

[Ilja]

Was this also composed for the 1928 Columbia Records (UK, not the US one) Schubert competition? Seems obvious, but the Wikipedia article doesn't list it.

[Mark Thomas]

I have always believed that to be so, but I can't quote a reference to confirm it - there were 513 entries for the competition!

[John Boyer]

Was this also composed for the 1928 Columbia Records (UK, not the US one) Schubert competition?

I don't follow your question. It was my understanding that there was one international competition, broken up into geographic regions. There were regional winners, who then went on to the final international selection.

In any case, Weingartner was a member of the artistic advisory committee and therefore was not eligible to enter the competition.  Further, Weingartner discussed the genesis of the symphony in an article in a Swiss journal that appeared in November 1928 in which the composer said that he wanted to honor the Schubert centenary in a less commercial and tacky way than what he saw being done at the time.

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks, John. To clarify Ilja's post, the UK refers to the Columbia Records company, not the competition, because it's not the same company as the more well-known US Columbia Records. You're right, of course, that there was just one competition, with regional winners.

[eschiss1]

The preface for MPH suggests? that he may have considered entering the competition before being selected as a judge (but it wasn't "commissioned"...)