Last year, I have an interest to start doing another symphony after Fock's 1st, so I have chosen Foerster's symphony as training material. Today I start revisiting the last movement, which was also the most effectively written, well-balanced and easy listening one.
4. FinaleP/S: This symphony was plagiarized as Hans Franke's "Symphony No. 4, Frühling im Tal der Müglitz"
Thank you.
An illustrated 128-page biography of "Hofkapellmeister Alban Förster" [note the spelling with umlaut] in German is still available as one of the publications of the Neuberin-Museum in Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany:
Rohrmeier, Rudolf: Der Hofkapellmeister Prof. Alban Förster – Ein Reichenbacher Musiker im Spiegelbild seiner Zeitgenossen. - 2012. - Band 30. - ISBN 978-3-932626-30-2
Thank you! I should perhaps point out that Franke added a fifth movement, "Idylle: die Stadt Glashütte" to Förster's symphony between the Scherzo and the Finale. That one we haven't identified yet.
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Here is the 2nd movement:
2. Adagio ma non troppo
1st movement:
1. Allegro vivace e cantabile
The Idyll looks a little familiar among things I've been browsing recently, I wonder why?...
Quote from: eschiss1 on Saturday 11 July 2026, 13:46The Idyll looks a little familiar among things I've been browsing recently, I wonder why?...
Yes, it's been wracking me as well, I KNOW I've seen that before. If only my music reading skills were less rubbish.