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for example Gottfried Huppertz (1887-1937)famous for the Metropolis fritz Lang masterpiece (1927,cd Capriccio C 5066),but also Die Nibelungen (F.Lang,1924) and the medieval tragedy "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (Gerlach,1924),an astonishing forerunner to my so dear Korngold !

The last refuge of romantic music is in films and some ballets (sometimes from the same pen): lend an ear to Finnish composer Tuomas Kantellinen:his ballet music Snow Queen.

Did you knew that secret jewel: Tchaikovski 2nd piano concerto...?recently discovered on radio (without composer's name aired before listening)but except for complete sets of his piano/orch.works, when have we chance to listen to it ?

victim of tuberculosis, protégé of Tchaikovsky,friend of Rachmaninov,ploughed by Rimsky-Korsakov (the Young wife o Vassili ...send a faulty copy of his 1st symphony to the professor..!)fortunately, russian Maestros (incl.Svetlanov & Jarvi recorded his orchestral works, Following the cd of Veronika Dudarova on Olympia

For me,a kind of nordic Berlioz,without the woolly forewords of the boiling Hector (see mad poet of Fantaéstic Sy,Lelio et al),discovered some years ago through a "cd renaissance" (EMICl. Matrix etc.)

child prodigy,Barnum-like touring virtuoso through 3 Americas (the States,the South and the west indies)he went in Paris and then the toast of musical socialites 'Berlioz, Chopin...) his piano solo works have scent of the isles (Cuba etc.)English-jewish father, french mother of aristocracy settled in St-Domingue (Haiti)he left also various works for piano & orchestra (undusted by Vox in the 50/60') and an opera "Escenas Campestres (rustic scènes),all with infectiouscaribbean rythms and tunes !

Unfortunately for him: Austrian Carl Filtsch (1830-45 !!), a pupil of Wieck and Chopin (a precocious one, indeed) wrote an overture and a short piano concerto (see CD-Accord ACD 177-2 released in 2010 "Chopin's pupils,with Thomas Tellefsen piano cto op.