{"id":600,"date":"2007-09-03T01:45:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=600"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T21:17:34","slug":"robert-volkmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Robert Volkmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8865\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/07-09-03-LISTN-Robert-Volkmann-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"07-09-03 LISTN Robert Volkmann\" width=\"155\" height=\"198\"><\/a><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ten years ago, <span class=\"caps\">CBC<\/span> radio broad\u00adcast Robert Volkmann\u2019s Sym\u00adphony #1 in D. I was charmed by it. The announc\u00ader said that it sound\u00aded like \u201ca for\u00adgot\u00adten work by Brahms\u201d. True enough, and Volkmann\u2019s obscu\u00adrity could eas\u00adily be explained by say\u00ading he was one of Brahms\u2019 many imi\u00adta\u00adtors. But that sym\u00adphony was com\u00adposed in 1862, and Brahms\u2019 first sym\u00adphony didn\u2019t appear until four\u00adteen years lat\u00ader.&nbsp;I\u2019ve nev\u00ader been able to find a copy of that sym\u00adphony, and didn\u2019t hear the whole thing on the <span class=\"caps\">CBC<\/span> broad\u00adcast, so it isn\u2019t list\u00aded in my lis\u00adten\u00ading files. But I have obtained two works by him, the <em>Konz\u00adert\u00adst\u00fcck<\/em> for Piano <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Orches\u00adtra, and the Cel\u00adlo Con\u00adcerto. Both are enter\u00adtain\u00ading and well-craft\u00aded, but not over\u00adwhelm\u00ading. The cel\u00adlo con\u00adcerto is worth sev\u00aderal lis\u00adtens. Both works reveal his real influ\u00adence: Schu\u00admann. Volk\u00admann lived from 1815 to 1883. He was born in Sax\u00adony, spent a short stint in Prague, then the rest of his life in Budapest. He was respect\u00aded and often played in his life\u00adtime, but fell out of the reper\u00adtory after his death. It\u2019s more fair to say that he was a seri\u00adous com\u00adposer whose work fol\u00adlowed on Schu\u00admann and antic\u00adi\u00adpated Brahms, whom he influ\u00adenced sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcantly. This is not dis\u00admis\u00adsible as mere imi\u00adta\u00adtion. But time has a way of cast\u00ading off such in-betweens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, <span class=\"caps\">CBC<\/span> radio broad\u00adcast Robert Volkmann\u2019s Sym\u00adphony #1 in D. I was charmed by it. The announc\u00ader said that it sound\u00aded like \u201ca for\u00adgot\u00adten work by Brahms\u201d. True enough, and Volkmann\u2019s obscu\u00adrity could eas\u00adily be explained by saying&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=600\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-ct-listening-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}