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Does anyone know anything about the Symphony in G minor by Josef (or Joseph) Hüttel (1893-1951)?  Apparently, composed in 1935 it won a prize from the Smetana Jubilee Foundation and was published by 1939 (see Hofmeister 1939). Hüttel was a composition student in Prague of V. Novak and in Moscow of Taneyev. He remained in Russia until around 1920 and ultimately settled in Egypt where he was conductor of the Alexandria Philharmonic and then a director with the state radio.  He returned to Czechoslovakia after WW II.

My search through the Hofmeister publications up through 1940 was mostly a dead end: Kletzki's Second Symphony (choral finale), Bergh's Tragische Sinfonie (on IMSLP), Hermann Ambrosius' Suite in G minor for Orchestra (6 Baroque dance movements), Paul Richter's Third Symphony (on Youtube), and Hüttel's symphony.

What a fascinating work. From the text you were able to transcribe did you get an understanding about the subject matter of Baltz's ballade?

Wanting to know what these sounded like I typeset them in MuseScore so I figured I would share them with fellow forum members. I have no faith in the transpositions I did in movements 1 and 3 but I wanted to provide more orchestral color.

I. Andante ma non troppo
I. Allegro moderato (sound="fast strings")
II. Allegro, molto appassionato
III. Lento

The full url should be Image 100 from Verschiedenen Noten und Kompositionen von Julius Otto Grimm Band 2.

Or you can download the images as a PDF from IMSLP.

From Grimm's digitized estate I was also able to find several unpublished choral works (some incomplete) that are now available on IMSLP: Gesang der Mönche, Lied des fahrenden Schülers, Moltke †, Trinklied an Bakchos, and Bei der Einkleidung. There are also the published full score and parts to two patriotic pieces: An Kaiser Wilhelm II and Zum Geburtsfeste des Kaisers.

MuseScore Studio, to use its new name, is a free music notation software.  It can also create audio files from that sheet music.  When version 4 was released the developers also made available a set of high quality sound libraries called MuseSounds (sets available for strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, harp, choir, etc.). These can be downloaded through a type of front-end app called MuseHub.  When you download the application that gets installed with it.  You can get the app from www.musescore.org. There is a separate www.musescore.com page that is for sharing scores and has paid services but the software and support on the .org is all free.

I believe the option should be under the file menu and then select export.  See if Musicxml is available there.

Can Score Writer produce MusicXML files? If so, and if you can get the file to me, I'll be happy to render it in MuseScore 4.5 using MuseSounds (which is a huge improvement over the sounds available in version MuseScore 3.x).

After tinkering with it on and off for ten years I have finally finished typesetting Reinhold's Praeludium, Menuett und Fuge, Op.10 for string orchestra.  The results can be heard at Musescore.  Nothing earth-shattering here but I think it's an enjoyable 13 minutes of music.

Now on Youtube: Praeludium, Menuett, Fuge.

Here it is: Tonkünstler- und Verleger-Almanach der Musikliterarischen Blätter pp.72-74.

Here is the article on Jentsch from Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild if that is the article you are seeking: pages 320-321.

The manuscript you link to purports to be Chausson's holograph (signed on the last page). Higher resolution images can be found at the source: Library of Congress. The score was donated to the Library by Fritz Kreisler who had received it from Eugène Ysaÿe. Another manuscript of Op.25 can be found at the French National Library.

No.9 is a selection from the ballet Coppélia by Léo Delibes.  The big tune starts around 4:30.

The Lewenthal LP can be heard on the Internet Archive.

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).