Christine Whittlesey: Complete Symphonies & Works for Chamber Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS

Christine Whittlesey: Complete Symphonies & Works for Chamber Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Complete Symphonies & Works for Chamber Orchestra

Artist:

Christine Whittlesey

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761203573929

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-07-03

Number of Discs:

5

If you talk about the Viennese School at the beginning of the 20th century, his name will certainly be mentioned alongside Schonberg, Berg and Webern, even though he broke away from the "twelve-tone" school early on and went his own harmonic way: Egon Wellesz, born in Vienna, one of Schonberg's first pupils and a musicology student of Guido Adler: he would need both of these educations in his life. Until the outbreak of the war, he was one of the most frequently performed composers in the German-speaking world, and his five operas were successfully performed at the largest German theaters. At this time, however, he was already a professor of musicology and had specialized in deciphering Byzantine musical notation. Then came the break: in 1938 he was forced to emigrate to England, although he was able to continue his university career at Oxford. The composer Wellesz remained silent until the end of the war, only then did he return to full creative power, writing almost half of his works after the age of 60. The nine symphonies are undoubtedly the main works of this late period. The emigrant deliberately drew on Austrian symphonic music; for him, his symphonic works probably also meant coming to terms with the loss of his homeland.

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