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Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  I have uploaded corrected files to IMSLP.

1942 Zeitschrift für Musik reports the performance of Franke's Symphony No.4 in E-flat major (or E major as they reported in the second blurb) "Frühling im Tal der Müglitz" on Jan. 12, 1942 in Teplitz-Schönau by the Städtische Orchester under Bruno C. Schestak. First mention (Jan. 1942), second mention (Feb. 1942).

Small (or Little)Suite for String Orchestra (op. 863) on that South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra CD.  Now the only "Little Suite" I know is the  Carl Nielsen....

My post (#95) in this thread had a link to the publisher's website and noted that several of Franke's scores are available there as perusal pdfs including Kleine Suite für Streichorchester Op.863.

Wanted to add two notes.  The website for Edition49 has a few perusal scores of Franke's scores published by Vogt & Fritz.  Search for Hans Franke. The scores available are the Quartetto eufonico per quattro sonatori Op.841, Kleine Suite für Streichorchester Op.863, and Drei konzertante Stücke.  I also note that among his Drei Lieder is Der Spielmann Op.261 for voice, violin, and piano.  Eugen Hildach (1849-1924) published a song for voice and piano also entitled Der Spielmann as his Op.15 No.1 in 1893.  In 1931 a version was published by Heinrichshofen's Verlag that included a violin solo.

Interestingly, https://hans-franke.de/ claims he attended the Leipzig Conservatory but the Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig 1893-1918 which lists all the students who attended during those years does not list a Hans Franke. His bio claims he studied piano and composition under Carl Reinecke. Reinecke retired from the Conservatory in 1902 so Franke's attendance at the conservatory would have to have fallen within the period the book covers.

The links to the Stöhr collection at St. Michael's College and the pdf inventory don't seem to be working.  The pdf can be accessed via the Internet Archive here.  It appears they have a number of the symphonies in full score.  The Austrian National Library also has about 150 manuscript scores by Stöhr.

Could be in NLR.

This PDF would appear to be an inventory of what manuscripts of Nápravník are in their collection (or at least as of 1960).

It appears that the Max-Reger-Archiv holds three manuscripts (scores and parts) of the Konzertstück which are described here: D-MEIr BI5, D-MEIr BI6, and D-MEIr B17.

Edward Eanes' dissertation that ultimately became his published book is available to download from here.  Eanes had access to the composer's archive held by his son some of which has been deposited at Tulane University (Giuseppe Ferrata papers).  Eanes' work list makes no mention of a symphony.  Ferrata's piano concerto was produced by him as a two-piano score which his publisher J. Fischer & Brother had orchestrated by a New York musician. It isn't clear if what was in the archive was the two-piano score or the full score or both. It appears that Ferrata's son must have held onto his father's music scores as the collection at Tulane consists of correspondence and miscellaneous papers. The few scores Tulane has digitized are printed editions and many of those are in distressed condition.  Those transferred to IMSLP have been cleaned up.

Hi 4candles,

I've used Tesseract with the Fraktur font library to perform OCR on German-language librettos with some success.  I've taken the article, cropped the images, and have run it through Tesseract.  The results aren't too bad considering the rather low resolution of the original images. The PDF with an OCR layer can be downloaded here. You can select all the text and copy it to a text file to clean it up further.

Just wanted to put a plug in here for the Big KLR Trio Box that can be obtained in mp3 format from Amazon for the paltry sum of 99 cents.  Of interest to users of this site is the inclusion of the Arensky Trio and the two Brahms String Sextets arranged for piano trio by Theodor Kirchner.

Gareth,

Borwoski's holograph scores and manuscript parts to the works you seek are in the collection of the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  The scores and parts to about a dozen of his other works are also there.

Apparently, the three missing overtures include the following: Ouverture serieuse (performed in Stettin, 1879), Ouvertura giocosa (performed in Stettin, 1883), and an early Overture in C minor for which sketches exist in the Berlin State Library.  Since the two overtures were performed in Stettin/Szczecin one can hope that the performance material managed to survive the ravages of time and two world wars and will turn up in Poland one day.  Doubtful, but one can hope.

The link provided by Wheesht to the Mont Alto Orchestra's site is likely contain all the information currently discoverable about Borch on the internet. It includes communication from one of the composer's grandsons (who would appear to have none of Borch's scores) and does a good job of trying to clarify Borch's complex personal life.  I suppose if any of his manuscripts survive they would have passed to his last (third?) wife Elsie and those related to his work might have been left with the cinema orchestra he was conducting in Stockholm.  I did typesets of a dozen or so piano reductions of some of his photoplay music including a 4 movement suite entitled Oriental Pictures which can be listened to at Musescore.

What is the source for the claim that her trio won a Cobbett prize?  When researching the Cobbett competitions to fill in the page at IMSLP I never ran across her name.  Is it possible that the trio was actually commissioned by W.W. Cobbett?  Some sources claim that Dorothy Howell's Phantasy for Violin and Piano was a Cobbett prize winner when it was in fact a Cobbett commission.  Thanks!