the German / Austrian music scene, 1918-1938

[coffee]

What are your favorite works from this period? As far as I'm concerned, the composers don't have to have been German or Austrian, as long as the works were performed in Germany or Austria and would have been known in, say, the cafes of Vienna.

For now, I'll go with Weill's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" and "The Threepenny Opera" as my favorites, along with Berg's "Wozzeck," "Lyric Suite," and Violin Concerto; Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," Bartok's "The Miraculous Mandarin," and Korngold's "Die tote Stadt."

Yours?

[Sergeant Rock]

Staying strictly within the 1918-38 framework:

Richard Wetz

Symphony #1 C minor
Symphony #2
Symphony #3 B flat

Hans Pfitzner

Violin Concerto
Symphony C# minor

Richard Strauss

Arabella
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die ägyptische Helena

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Der Zwerg
Lyric Symphony
Psalm 13

Erich Korngold

Die tote Stadt
Das Wunder der Heliane

Franz Schmidt

Symphony #3 A major
Symphony #4 C major
Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln
Clarinet/Piano Quintet B major
Clarinet/Piano Quintet A major

Arnold Schoenberg

Serenade op.24
String Quartet #4
Variations for Orchestra op.31
Violin Concerto op.36

Alban Berg

Violin Concerto
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments)
Der Wein

Anton Webern

6 Pieces for large orchestra op.6 (revised 1928)
String Trio
Symphony

Paul Hindemith

Mathis der Maler
Symphony: Mathis der Maler
Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings op. 50
Nobilissima Visione

Kurt Weil

Das Berliner Requiem
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
The Seven Deadly Sins
Symphony #1
Symphony #2

Franz Schreker

Vorspiel zu einer grossen Oper


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