German academics have been campaigning for years on behalf of the symphonies of Johann Nepomuk David, who lived and taught in Germany through World War II and rushed into his bombed, burning house to retrieve the score of the Symphony No. 4 heard here (he grabbed the wrong bundle but reconstructed the music from memory). David was a student of Schoenberg and flirted with serial-like techniques, and he's been compared to another of his influences, Paul Hindemith, in his more expansive and less neoclassic mode. But the effect ...
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German academics have been campaigning for years on behalf of the symphonies of Johann Nepomuk David, who lived and taught in Germany through World War II and rushed into his bombed, burning house to retrieve the score of the Symphony No. 4 heard here (he grabbed the wrong bundle but reconstructed the music from memory). David was a student of Schoenberg and flirted with serial-like techniques, and he's been compared to another of his influences, Paul Hindemith, in his more expansive and less neoclassic mode. But the effect is more like that of another German composer, Max Reger, and if you like him, you'll probably like David, a contrapuntist in the Reger mode but with more contemporary harmonic practice and often a heavily chromatic treatment of modal pitch groupings. Sample the Scherzo movement of the Symphony No. 4, Op. 39, the longest of the symphony's four movements, which builds itself up from rather inchoate material to a contrapuntal climax of great power. Throughout, the themes are logically...
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