1928 HANS PFITZNER BEETHOVEN EROICA Symphony No 3 78rpm

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

Deutsche Grammophon made some costly mistakes in their recording equipment, which lead to sometime 4 recordings of lenghty classical works in the 1920:

The first acoustic recordings up to mid 1924 are still prized for their incredible fidelity.

In late 1924, DG re recorded a lot of works in their proprietary TELEPHONE MICROPHONE early early electric Process. These issues are the rarest of all sets

This was superseded in 1926 with licensing the Brunswick Light Ray system.

With the Advent of Electrola in 1926 of great recordings on noiseless surfaces, DG needed a competitive answer: New noiseless shellac and their Polyfar Raumklang system provided some of the greatest, high fidelity recordings of all 78s (next to Ultraphon-Telefunken 1928 system and Alan Bluemleins 1931 recorder these are the absolute best recordings made in the 78 period)

The Beethoven Centenary in 1927, and Schubert in 1928 provided another motivation for the incredible cornucopia of DF recordings

Great German composer and conductor HANS PFITZNER with the BERLIN PHIL BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 - Eroica.

6x12" Deutsch Grammophon on superb late pressing records with original album.

 Condition: EXCELLENT pristine, very dusty need cleaning. Album is solid, with water spots at the margin of covers, spine faded, its top/ bottom rough

Hans Erich Pfitzner (May 5, 1869 – May 22, 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

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Born in Moscow, Pfitzner spent most of his life in Germany, working as conductor, pianist, and teacher as well as composer. Pfitzner was the son of a professional violinist and received lessons from his father when he was quite young. The family moved to Frankfurt in 1872. His earliest compositions were composed when he was 11, and in 1884 he wrote his first songs. From 1886 to 1890 he studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He taught at the Koblenz Conservatory from 1892 to 1893. In 1894 he was appointed conductor at the Stadttheater in Mainz. His own music - which includes pieces in all the major genres except the symphonic poem - was respected by contemporaries such as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, although neither man cared much for Pfitzner's innately acerbic manner (and Alma Mahler reciprocated his adoration with contempt). Particularly notable are Pfitzner's numerous and delicate Lieder, influenced by Hugo Wolf, yet with their own rather melancholy charm. (Several of them were recorded during the 1930s by the distinguished baritone Gerhard Hüsch, with the composer at the piano.) His first symphony underwent a strange genesis: it was not conceived in orchestral terms at all, but was a reworking of a string quartet.

Hans Pfitzner featured on a 1994 German postage stampEasily the most celebrated of Pfitzner's prose utterances is his pamphlet Futuristengefahr ("Danger of Futurists"), written in response to Ferruccio Busoni's Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music. "Busoni," Pfitzner complained, "places all his hopes for Western music in the future and understands the present and past as a faltering beginning, as the preparation. But what if it were otherwise? What if we find ourselves presently at a high point, or even that we have already passed beyond it?"

Increasingly nationalistic in his middle and old age, Pfitzner was at first regarded sympathetically by important figures in the Third Reich (in particular by Hans Frank, with whom he remained on good terms). But he soon fell out with chief Nazis, who were unimpressed by his long musical association with the Jewish conductor Bruno Walter. He incurred extra odium by refusing to obey the regime's request to provide incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream that could be used in place of the music of Felix Mendelssohn, who was also Jewish. Pfitzner maintained Mendelssohn's original was far better than anything he himself could offer as a substitute. After the war he ended up in an old people's home in Salzburg, Austria where he died. Following long neglect, his music began to reappear in opera houses and concert halls, as well as recording studios, during the 1990s.

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