Don Satz writes, of Carl Ludolf Nielsen,

>I tend to lump Nielsen in with Petersen-Berger and Borresen these days.
>...  I don't think they are at Zemlinsky's level.

(I think I have an unfair advantage here- I'm fairly familiar with
Borresen by score, and Peterson-Berger by reputation...)

Bernard Hill responds:

>Zemwho?

Alexander Zemlinsky, Schoenberg's teacher/brother-in-law (if memory
serves), Mahler's rival in love, composer of 2 symphonies (and a Lyric
Symphony), 4 string quartets, other chamber music, many operas, and
much else besides.  A quick search of the CD catalogs- say, EMI's recent
releases- will reveal a bit of a Zemlinsky resurgence- of sorts.  (Though
for me it's still the old DG recording of the LaSalle quartet playing the
4 string quartets that establishes him as a composer to be reckoned with.
Especially quartets 3 and 4, which are unique.)

Borresen- a Danish composer, turn of the century; a Danish effort
(Samfundet til U.  ...) dedicated to preserving Danish music insured that
Borresen's 2nd quartet and 3rd symphony achieved fairly wide circulation
(many libraries have scores of them, though only now are they being
recorded - the quartet on cpo, I think, and the symphony on da Capo and
I think also on cpo).  (Samfundet is and was a .huge. publishing effort,
with works by Holmboe- one of the major composers of the latter half of
the 20th century, in my opinion- Carl Nielsen, and many others receiving
some of their first publications, I believe, under their imprint.)

(Ludolf Nielsen's 2nd symphony, in a composer-arranged piano reduction,
was .also.  published under the Samfundet imprint, else the name should
have been quite new to me when I saw cpo and da Capo come out with
simultaneous releases of that score on recording.)

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