Struck as I was on hearing this piece of string quartet music on TTN the other night - I thought it must surely be an early work of Schoenberg's or Zemlinsky's, newly discovered, or that had escaped me - I thought I might try starting a thread on pieces others may have found in unexpected places in a composer's output.
You might not have known, for instance, or expected, that of all people, Peter Warlock composed a parody foxtrot version of the main theme of the finale from Franck's D minor symphony - or that the Hungarian composer, Bartok friend and one-time Kodaly pupil Matyas Seiber collaborated on a work for jazz band and orchestra with then-leading British modern jazz musician John Dankworth!
That said, by way of an open invitation to take me up on this, the abovementioned and linked to piece below, believe it or not, was composed as early as 1886, it says elsewhere... but don't be fooled by its beguilingly charming opening!
You might not have known, for instance, or expected, that of all people, Peter Warlock composed a parody foxtrot version of the main theme of the finale from Franck's D minor symphony - or that the Hungarian composer, Bartok friend and one-time Kodaly pupil Matyas Seiber collaborated on a work for jazz band and orchestra with then-leading British modern jazz musician John Dankworth!
That said, by way of an open invitation to take me up on this, the abovementioned and linked to piece below, believe it or not, was composed as early as 1886, it says elsewhere... but don't be fooled by its beguilingly charming opening!
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