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As to Rott possibly having written a 2nd symphony, it exists only in
sketches, to my knowledge, and would have been in A-flat.
Zemlinsky's last two quartets traverse a quite unusual sphere of emotions,
not really that of lush ultra-Romanticism, nor corresponding to any other
well-known trend, though perhaps having .something. in common with some
composers' use of neoclassicism (Prokofiev's, perhaps.) I value them
highly. Mr. Norrman's tale of an early e minor symphony predating the
d minor symphony usually referred to as no. 1 (a d minor symphony whose
finale was recently discovered and recorded, and is not on the recording on
Marco Polo I have and enjoy) is unfamiliar to me, though the notes to that
Marco Polo recording mention an E .major. symphony, not predating but
.postdating. the canonical two symphonies, and, like them, existing only
in sketches. I seem to have read somewhere that the notewriter for that
recording had gotten sketches for Die Seejungfrau (Zemlinsky's symphonic
poem and one of his best-known works) confused with sketches for an
otherwise unknown symphony, and wonder if the same explanation is available
for the e minor symphony Mr. Norrman describes?? Only a possibility, and
not a likelihood, of course, though hearing on the one hand that there is
an e minor symphony predating the known works and on the other that there
is an E major symphony postdating them does make one suspicious. Quite.
Anyone with intimate familiarity with these sketches?
Eric Schissel
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