Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Wheesht on Thursday 17 April 2025, 15:26

Title: Georg Göhler (1874-1954)
Post by: Wheesht on Thursday 17 April 2025, 15:26
This German composer, conductor and critic was born Karl Georg Göhler in Zwickau on 29 June, 1874 and died in Lübeck on 4 March 1954.
He left a large number of works, including five symphonies, concertos for violin, piano and cello, also 200 songs. According to the entry in "Deutsche Biographie" (https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116701471.html?language=en#ndbcontent), due to his conscious retrospective approach  his compositions failed to gain lasting recognition because they were embedded in the Romantic tradition. His estate, including 23,000 letters (!), is held by the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau, according to the biographical entry on the Mahler Foundation website (https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/georg-gohler/).
Title: Re: Georg Göhler (1874-1954)
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 17 April 2025, 18:22
Quote from: Wheesht on Thursday 17 April 2025, 15:26because they were embedded in the Romantic tradition.

Good for him (rubs hands)! Let's have 'em....

More info here:
https://www.tobias-broeker.de/newpage7d864303
Title: Re: Georg Göhler (1874-1954)
Post by: Gerhard Griesel on Sunday 20 April 2025, 19:16
I see some of his music is avaiable on YouTube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTX9OlTsfw
Title: Re: Georg Göhler (1874-1954)
Post by: Wheesht on Sunday 20 April 2025, 19:36
Well spotted, thanks! The CD is currently available from jpc with a discount of 60%, I have just noted.
Title: Re: Georg Göhler (1874-1954)
Post by: eschiss1 on Sunday 20 April 2025, 19:47
His first symphony in D minor was published by Klemm in 1902, and a string quartet in A minor by them in 1929... Adding things to a IMSLP wishlist presently...