Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Friday 26 April 2013, 17:52

Title: Julius Bittner Der Bergsee
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 26 April 2013, 17:52
Has anyone heard the 1911 opera Der Bergsee by Julius Bittner (1874-1939)?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0006HSTUU/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A222B3K468LCHQ
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0006HSTUU/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A222B3K468LCHQ)
Title: Re: Julius Bittner Der Bergsee
Post by: Ser Amantio di Nicolao on Friday 26 April 2013, 20:24
I gave it to my father for Father's Day a year or two ago.  As I recall, his assessment was that it's pretty good until the end, when it just sort of dies.  I'd assume the idiom is German late Romantic, given what I know of the composer, but I don't recall actually establishing that with him.