Festival of Neglected Romantic Music

Festival of Neglected Romantic Music

The Festival of Neglected Romantic Music was founded by musicologist Frank Cooper at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1968.

Cooper directed the Festival for the next eleven years, during which time many seminal works of the Romantic era that had not been heard since the 19th century received their first modern performances, including

*orchestral works by Bruneau, David, Duparc, Goedicke, Guiraud, Józef Hofmann, Martucci, Raff, Anton Rubinstein, Schelling, Sinding, and Spohr;
*concertos by Boellmann, Bronsart, Dreyschock, Ernst, Godard, Goltermann, Henselt, Herz, Hummel, Joachim, Moszkowski, Palmgren, Rheinberger, Rimsky-Korsakov and Anton Rubinstein;
*choral works by Gade, Pierne, Raff, Reger, Sgambati and Weber,
*fully-staged ballets by Burgmüller, Drigo, Glazunov, Hertel, Offenbach, Thomas,
*solo and chamber works by Alkan, Blumenfeld, Bronsart, Dohnanyi, Godowsky, Napravnik, Xaver Scharwenka, and Thalberg.

The New York Times’s Harold C. Schonberg and other critics commented on the high professional level of the presentations, and certain specific performers became associated with the Festival, including violinist Aaron Rosand, pianists Jorge Bolet, Malcolm Frager, Gunnar Johansen and Raymond Lewenthal, ‘cellists James Kreger and Jascha Silberstein, and conductors Victor Borge, Igor Buketoff, Jorge Mester and Izler Solomon – many of whom went on to record several of these works for commercial record labels. Schonberg wrote many articles crediting Cooper with almost single handedly jumpstarting the Romantic Revival in music. The Festival continued after Cooper left.

References

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840154,00.html Romantic Revival] "Time" magazine, May 30, 1969.


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