Bernard Chasan wrote:

On this basis I acquired a cd of two Braunfels string
>quartets, written in the mid forties.  This is interesting music - the
>notes with the cd compare the first quartet to Bartok, while the staff
>recommendation described it as Brucknerian.

Check out Braunfels' opera Der Vogel.  Gorgeous in the lush,
post-Straussian manner.  My wife was virtually hypnotized by it.

Roger Hecht