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Nice to see this on Youtube! I had the pleasure to listen to this concert which included Weber's Freischütz-Overture and Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, too. Simon Kannenberg is a fine musician and musicologist. Besides of Raff, he is very active for Ferdinand Pfohl and Felix Woyrsch. Not long ago he wrote this encyclopedia article about Pfohl (in German):

https://kulturstiftung.org/biographien/pfohl-ferdinand

Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig, 25 February, 19:00

The International Draeseke Society has arranged a concert to commemorate the 110th aniversary of Felix Draeseke's death in the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig. Pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg will play a varied program where music of Theodor Kirchner (200th birthday in 2023) is included, too:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Präludium und Fuge C-Dur KV 394

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonate F-Dur Hob.XVI:23

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonate As-Dur/Es-Dur D 557

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Alla Ingharese quasi un Capriccio op. 129

Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903)
Capricen op. 27 Nr. 1-3

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Arabeske op. 18

Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)
Sonata quasi fantasia op. 6

https://www.edvard-grieg.de/events/konzert-zum-110-todestag-von-felix-draeseke

"Nun danket alle Gott" is known as "the chorale of Leuthen" in Germany, because the Prussian soldiers sung it after their victory in the battle of Leuthen 1757. So for Germans this chorale was long associated with victory in war (Reger used it 1915 in his "Vaterländische Ouvertüre").

Considering that Van der Stucken was an American who studied in Germany, could it be that the peace celebrated in "Pax Triumphans" is a "Siegfrieden"?

Great news!

Unfortunately this quartet had been overlooked so far. There is a conductor who wants to perform it as a string symphony (and to record it), but this project has not materialised yet. I will inform you, if something into this direction is done.

The relation between Draeseke and Scheinpflug seems to have been a troubled one. Scheinplug left the Dresden conservatoire in dispute with Draeseke, but when Draeseke had finished his Christus Scheinplug wrote an enthusiastic article about the oratorio. When parts of the work were premiered in 1900 in Bremen, Scheinplug, who was then leader of the municipal orchestra, gave his old teacher a friendly welcome, and it seems that he was a driving force behind the premiere. Draeseke strongly disagreed with Scheinpflug's later development as a composer. In a letter to his friend Theodor Röhmeyer from 6 April 1907 Draeseke attested Scheinpflug "outstanding foolishness" ("hervorragende Tölpelhaftigkeit").

Here you can read it in Draeseke's collected correspondence, which was published recently:

https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A81932/attachment/ATT-0/

I don't think that Draeseke was right in his judgement on Scheinpflug's abilities! Scheinpflug's String Quartet seems to be a very great piece, and in general it is time to revive the works of this composer.

The funeral march in the first movement of the quartet resembles Draeseke's funeral march, I would say, as members of one family resemble each other. But the resemblance is not so exact that I would call it a quote or at least a hommage. Considering that Scheinpflug was definitely not one of Draeseke's favourite pupils (Draeseke had strong personal ties e.g. to Paul Büttner, Bernhard Schneider-Krawc, Carl Ehrenberg, Percy Sherwood, Leland Anthony Cossart), it seems to me that the similarities in the case of the string quartet are by accident.

The only other recording of the Tovey I know is Robert Atchison's in an all-Tovey album on Guild.

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Kammermusiksaal
16 December 2022, 19:30

Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonata in B minor op. 40/2
Giannis Konstantinidis: 6 Etudes on rhythms of Greek folklore
Felix Draeseke: Sonata quasi fantasia for piano op. 6
Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major op. 18

Aris Alexander Blettenberg, piano
Amelie Böckheler, violin

Sheva Collection has released a CD of works for solo violin, played by Anna Kakutia, a violinist from Georgia living in Munich.

http://www.shevacollection.co.uk/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=230

The album can be listened to via Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dXm_WTReY8&list=OLAK5uy_kdv3ZS-o3x8zmncatK3PgzLVuaFi5x67E

It contains:

Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in E minor op.117/3
Richard Wetz: Sonata in G op. 33
Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in A minor WoO II/16
Donald Francis Tovey: Sonata Eroica in C major op. 29
Max Reger: Prelude in E minor WoO II/19

Thank you for the link to Herr Dandolo! Here is another piece by Rudolf Siegel in handwritten full score, the Minna von Barnhelm Suite after the comedy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing:

https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0013/bsb00139224/images/index.html

It is part of a collection of Siegel's manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Felix Draeseke's Sonata quasi Fantasia op. 6 has found a staunch advocate in Charlotte Steppes, a young German pianist from Leipzig. She had played the work several times during the last year, e.g. at the annual conference concert of the International Draeseke Society on 16 October in Bad Rodach. Here you can hear her performance from 20 March 2022 in Leipzig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumG9G_-D70

On 29 September 2022 the new Bösendorfer-Saal in Vienna will be opened with a piano recital by Aris Alexander Blettenberg. On this occasion Felix Draeseke's Piano Sonata op. 6 will recieve its first performance in Vienna. The other pieces to be heard are Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor and Polonaise op. 8, Bizet's Variations chromatiques, Bülow's transcription of Liszt's Dante sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta and Andante and Scherzo op. 13 by Julius Zellner.

http://www.the-new-listener.de/index.php/2022/09/26/eroeffnungskonzert-des-neuen-boesendorfer-saales-in-wien-mit-aris-alexander-blettenberg/

On 1 October 2022 the premiere performance of the Suite for Violoncello solo in B minor op. 32, No. 2 by Walter Courvoisier will take place at the Max-Reger-Tage in Weiden, Bavaria. It will be performed by the prominent German cellist Julius Berger, together with works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger and Adolf Busch.

https://www.maxregertage.de/veranstaltungen/termin/24-weidener-max-reger-tage-recital/

Courvoisier wrote his two Cello Suites op. 32 in 1921, but, unlike his Violin Suites op. 31, did not publish them. They remained unprinted until 2021, when a critical edition was published by Musikproduktion Höflich/Beyond the Waves. As the editor of the works I am proud that Prof. Berger has added the B minor Suite to his repertoire. He will record the work on CD, too.

This is good news. Jakub Hruša is one of the most gifted conductors of our time, and it is fine to see that he has turned towards the Rott symphony. Not long ago he recorded a 4 CD collection of all versions of Bruckner 4, which is very enjoyable.

The Youtuber "Lost and Sound" has given us the opportunity to listen to Draeseke's scandal piece of 1861:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIrOTDDFOQ