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I have it! And, somehow, it's not been plagiarised !

The Friedrich Muller concertante work for hunting horn and clarinet is pretty decent. The second movement is very reminiscent of the Adagio from Beethoven's Ninth.

Well,I have now played through the Ysaye. Some sixty or seventy years ago, I played the part of "Everyman" in the mediaeval morality play, and my school performance was described by a well-intentioned critic as "audible".  So is the Ysaye....................

Ok,it is not offensive to the ear, but it sounds like three separate compositions cobbled together,and without a trace of originality.

I received yesterday from Presto Music this CD on the Accent label. I particularly liked the second  Sinfonia Concertante, in F major, on the cusp of Romanticism,for flute,oboe,bassoon,horn and orchestra. The CD has been around for about a year and is played with great affection by Harmonie Universelle, a name previously unknown to me.  I don't know the precise date of the Clarinet Concerto ( yet another discovery by Klocker), but the other two works were apparently composed in 1814 or shortly thereafter.

The CD arrived in tandem with the Ysaye E minor violin concerto, which I will now try to get to grips with.

I am very pleased to hear all of this and, particularly, that the baton should indeed now be handed to the German press. It's wishful thinking, but it would be splendid if the CD containing Woelfl and (especially) Kauffmann could be re-issued with the correct attribution, as it is a fine recording of an excellent symphony, and it would be a shame if a by-product of our investigations results in permanent suppression of such lovely music.

The Symphony is a fine work, and I too am glad that this Wikipedia article gives him his due.

The later works leave me cold,although I understand why they are there. But,if only they had paired the Kovarovic with the Synphony by Blodek!  Moody,melodic,and melancholic,it is scandalously overlooked.

More "Spellbound" than "Warsaw", in my opinion.   No thanks.

Duke Ernst's musical attempts to inspire composers into medley tributes  continue to miss the mark. I wondered elsewhere whether Grutzmacher's cello fantasia based on Ernst's themes was "a match of mediocrity", but the Duke has worked his (lack of) magic on a far more formidable composer in von Suppe. This is not mediocre, but frankly dreadful, stuff. I,too,found the opening movement fairly promising,in a kind of extended overture style, but the work grew worse and worse as the deadly duo combined to produce a  total lack of symphonic mastery.  I am not going to buy this rubbish,much as I like Suppe.

This will be a treat.

By the way,Alan is perfectly correct that Teplitz  was part of Czechoslovakia until the Munich Agreement in late 1938 meant that it was annexed by Hitler. Ilya is also right,as from that date.

So,one of the couplings is a work by our acquaintance, Elke Tober-Vokt

I was referring to Eric's post on this thread, no 80, Alan, which seems to bring up availability of the score

The score presumably survives intact.  Maybe Franke did a kind of Frankenstein job on the symphony.

However, one thing we now know for sure.  At least part of Franke's "Forest" Symphony was a plagiarism