Joel Lazar ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>BTW, Weill's Symphony No.1 is obviously endebted to Schoernberg First
>>Chamber Symphony in a big way.
>
>You beat me to it, Deryk.
>
>I think, however, it was Hans Eisler, who was a friend of JH's from their
>mutual Gymnasium days.

Yes - why on earth did I think Egon Wellesz - they don't even sound
similar...

>And there are hair-raising Horenstein/Schoenberg encounters both in the
>oral tradition AND in some published (?) letters from Schoenberg to Berg.

Those I'd like to read.  Schoenberg certanly seems to have been, shall we
say a little odd (I hadn't realised until recently that his superstition
went as far as the numbering of the bars in his music:  12, 12a, 14...)

Deryk Barker
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