Top Three Austro-German Ballets

[Florestan]

Have at it, ladies and gentlemen!

[ritter]

Are there any?

[Florestan]

Are there any?

   

Actually, there are —- two very good by Paul Wranitzky.

However, they cannot hold a candle to French or Russian composers of ballet music.

[Luke]

Here's one.

[Luke]

It's a very attractive piece IMO

[Florestan]

Una hirundo non facit ver.

[Luke]

(I assume we're taking The Creatures of Prometheus as read)

[Luke]

That's two hirundos, plus the two you already mentioned.

[Florestan]

That's two hirundos, plus the two you already mentioned.

Uhmmm, yes, that's actually four.

Blimey, I'm busted on my own terms!

Sigh!

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith, Nobilissima visione, the Four Temperaments and the Herodiade.

[Luke]

There's also Strauss's Schlagobers which is very much in the line of The Nutcracker in its series of tasty treats.

[Karl Henning]

There's also Strauss's Schlagobers which is very much in the line of The Nutcracker in its series of tasty treats.

Oh, and you've reminded me of R. Strauss' Joseph Legend.

[Luke]

Yes, and there are also his arrangements of other composers' music into balletic confections.

[Florestan]

There's also Strauss's Schlagobers which is very much in the line of The Nutcracker in its series of tasty treats.

Jokes aside, this is indeed a very good ballet!

[Luke]

Wasn't joking - I think they are comparable in this way.

[Florestan]

Wasn't joking - I think they are comparable in this way.

Oh, I wasn't joking either —- I think the same as you.

Yet, ballet music is mostly a Franco-Russian affair hands down.

[Symphonic Addict]

Undine and Schlagobers have my vote. My third choice would be Reger's quasi-ballet Eine Ballett-Suite.

[Mandryka]

Hans-Joachim Hespos, The Triadic Ballet

Karl-Heinz Stockhausen Inori

Boring van Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus

[pjme]

Not exactly "top three" , but there is a lot of unknown ballet music from Germany and
Austria - there may be a few nice surprises
i wonder if the Missa solemnis has been choreogrphed....

[ritter]

Not exactly "top three" , but there is a lot of unknown ballet music from Germany and
Austria

The operative word here being "unknown", I'm afraid.    .