Christopher Webber wrote:

>To broaden out the discussion of Schmidt, not by the way a "forgotten
>Hungarian" but a native of Pressburg (now Bratislava, capital of
>Slovakia)...

I appreciate Christopher Webber's thoughtful and revealing mini-essay
(http://tinyurl.com/6dlwbx) about Schmidt, but wonder about his challenge
to the composer's Hungarian-ness.

Never mind that *Pozsony* (renamed Bratislava only in 1919, thanks
to your Mr. Wilson's disastrous nation-building/rearranging efforts)
was the *capital* of the Kingdom of Hungary for some 250 years...
just listen to the "Notre Dame" Intermezzo
(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjZwvI0r2g) - it has some of the most
impassioned ("giccses"/kitschy) phony-Hunky music since the days of
that other questionably Hungarian composer, F.  Liszt...:)

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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