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britishcomposer described Ladislav Kupkovic in this way:
"You always thought that music took the wrong course in following Richard Wagner?
Then take this lovely Mendelssohnian musician to your heart!"

I do think that's a nice piano quartet (although I think I'm hearing some jazz syncopations that mark it as clearly 20th century). Thank you for posting it!

I just wanted to make you aware of a contemporary composer who's very consciously writing music in a Haydn/Mozart vein, so unironically that I've actually described this music as a little frightening:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/dennis-busch-symphony-no-67-flute-concertos-nos-2-27-mw0001409809

In several of Rob Barnett's reviews on MusicWeb, he refers to the six Piano Concertos of "the British Rachmaninov scion, Reginald Sacheverell Coke (1912-1975)". 

Not only have I never heard of this person, but he seems to show up on Google only in Rob's reviews - talk about unknown! Does anyone know more about him and his music?
-J

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Jim Moskowitz
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Spurred on by a recent listen to Tyzen Hsiao's 1947 Overture, I decided to see just how many years have their own piece. By which I don't mean had a piece composed that year, which of course would be every one for the past many centuries, but rather years which are explicitly included in a piece's title.

Of course Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is the blatant example, with a few others that come to mind shortly thereafter:
Husa: Music for Prague 1968
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Shostakovich: Symphony #11 "The Year 1905"
Shostakovich: Symphony #12 "The Year 1917"

...but I managed to come up with twenty just by going through the list of music I own. So the obvious question is, what other years belong on this list?

Janacek: Piano Sonata "1.X.1905"
Kilar: Koscielec 1909
Tournemire: Symphony #3 "Moscow 1913"
Hindemith: Suite 1922
Harris: Symphony 1933
Clifford: Symphony 1940
Prokofiev: 1941 Suite
Martinu: Merry Christmas 1941
Antheil: Symphony #4 "1942"
Creston: Chant of 1942
Finney: Symphony #1 "Communique 1943"
Francis Judd Cooke: Symphony 1944
Cikker: Symphony 1945
Gerster: Festoverture 1945
Nyström: 1945 Overture
Montsalvatge: Partita 1958
Gorecki: Symphony #1 "1959"
Fine: Symphony 1962
Werle: Summer Music 1965
Schuller Symphony 1965
Avni: Programme Music 1980
Francis Judd Cooke: Symphony 1990
Bokhour: New York, 1999


-J

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Jim Moskowitz
The Unknown Composers Page: http://kith.org/jimmosk/TOC.html
My latest list of unusual classical CDs for auction: http://tinyurl.com/jimsCDs