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Thanks to Wheesh for the directions to the Kaun concert. I can't say i was blown away but I wouldn't mind hearing more, maybe his piano concertos. There are mp3s here of part of his Pf cto here, I think it is live piano with synth orchestra.https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.2,_Op.115_(Kaun,_Hugo)

Gosh, now I am terrified to listen to it! Thanks for the warning!

If I remember correctly someone had interest in a concert of Bruckner's students' orchestral music and I got it off a broadcast I stumbled across. Here is the Mediafire folder if anyone wants to hear Kralik's violin concerto and her Hymnische Sinfonie.https://www.mediafire.com/folder/dubesavh1tfxb/Mathilde_Kralik
I don't know if it meets the forum's criteria or not.

Thank you Mark for this tip, I was inspired to follow up on your post and I also found Mongeroult's piano works wonderful, (and then the evil acquisitive imp shows up and says wouldn't it be nice if there was a piano concerto hidden somewhere)! In the meantime, the etudes and sonatas are lovely and I plan to listen to them all. Typically I go for big music like orchestral and chorus and orchestra, but it is nice to settle back a little and just relax and enjoy some elemental sounds.

I would like to hear Josef Labor's contributions--he was recently mentioned on here, he wrote chamber music and at least 3 Konzertstucke for "linke" hand, and maybe more. Wittgenstein turned to Labor for his first commission (not sure what resulted), Labor having been a longtime family friend as well as one of his teachers.

Yes! Way back in the seventies I just happened to turn the radio on right when this was about to be played and I captured it on cassette tape, has since those opening notes been one of my most memorable piano concerto favorites

Taneyev No.2 one of my favorites even if finished by someone else. I can barely stay in my seat during the last movement!

Joachim wrote several, premiered Brahms I think, Herzogenberg wrote one and a Rondo for vn and orch, Brahms discounted him until late in life when he said "Herzogenberg is able to do more than any of the others." (wiki). I am not in a position to put myself down for not listening only to "masterpieces".

I bought every Michael Ponti Candide/Vox LP I could find, agree the orchestras sometime not up his talent, but otherwise we might not even know about some of the composers whose music he played. I can listen to a poor recording if there is no other way to hear a piece that interests me.

Placed in downloads

Fritz Volbach
,,Königskinder"

Fritz Volbach
Sinfonie h-Moll op. 33


Sinfonieorchester Münster
Leitung: Golo Berg

Aufnahme vom 29. Januar 2019 aus dem Theater Münster

Der Komponist Fritz Volbach lehrte ab 1918 an der Universität Münster und war bis 1925 auch Musikdirektor und Leiter des Musikvereins dieser Stadt, bis er 1929 emeritiert wurde. 1919 hat er das Sinfonieorchester Münster gegründet. Dazu brachte er schon einiges an Erfahrung mit, hatte er doch während des Ersten Weltkriegs im besetzten Belgien mit Fritz Brandt unter den Besatzern in Brüssel ein deutsches Sinfonieorchester ins Leben gerufen. Die Bedingungen in Münster waren deutlich besser und halfen Volbach dabei, zu einer der zentralen Figuren in der Musikgeschichte der Stadt zu werden.
Google translation:
The composer Fritz Volbach taught from 1918 at the University of Münster and until 1925 also music director and conductor of the music club of this city, until he retired in 1929. In 1919 he founded the Sinfonieorchester Münster. In addition he brought quite some experience, because he had created during the First World War in occupied Belgium with Fritz Brandt under the occupiers in Brussels a German symphony orchestra to life. The conditions in Münster were significantly better and helped Volbach to become one of the central figures in the music history of the city.

Hans Pfitzer: Von deutscher Seele
Cohesive, beautiful choral sound, touches my soul.

I like it, too, wish I was made of money so we could get an orchestral recording done. Stands alone very well, though. Thanks.

Hi Marie, You might be able to find the score of Dora Bright's Piano Concerto No. 1 in a by contacting any of the principals of the performance within last few years by the young pianist Samantha Ward who played it with the Morley Chamber Orchestra conducted by Charles Peebles, I was able to correspond with Samantha Ward, but it has been awhile, I think Google might help. Nice piece to my ears, the pianist better than the orchestra, but never dreamed I would hear it at all.

Agree with giles.ender, what is the harm of a list? We know, ad infinitum, to whom this forum "belongs", and what the "remit" is, and so far it is worthwhile to read posts by other people but if anyone knows of other places to find information (and lists) about romantic composers let me know, hopefully before I get kicked off. Thanks

Interesting thread. Have always been interested in these composers who died young, not only for their precocious (and good) compositions, but also for "what might have been". Karl Filtsch, Lili Boulanger, Heikki Suohlati, Guillaume Lekeu, Viteszlava Kapralova et al. Nowadays a couple of kids seem to be developing into fine composers: Emily Bear, Graham Cohen, good music (if not for this thread) but tonal and enjoyable. I'm sure there are others from the 19th century at least since the diseases that took them away so young were rampant and uncurable. Would be interested in others' knowledge of other composers whose lives were sadly so short.