Klarinet Archive - Posting 001156.txt from 1999/07

From: Mark Gustavson <mgustav@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hearing Other Clarinet Players
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:30:40 -0400

Ed Wojtowicz wrote:
>
> In 1888, in Leipzig Brahms was invited to the home of Adolphe Brodsky, the
> concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. It was there that he had dinner
> with Grieg and Tchaikovsky.
>
> There was indeed some tension between the two. Apparently, neither liked the
> others music and made no attempt to hide this fact. Tchaikovsky wrote home
> "I have been much with Brahms yesterday and today...We are ill at ease
> together because we do not really like each other, but he takes pains to be
> pleasant with me." In a diary entry Tchaikovsky called Brahms "that
> scoundrel...this self inflated mediocrity."
>
> Brahms was recorded by an American named Theo Wangemann. He had been sent by
> Edison to record famous Europeans.
>
> This information is documented in Jan Swafford's Biography of Brahms (Knopf,
> 1997)
>
> I have a friend that has heard this recording, but don't know where it might
> be available.
>
> Ed
>
> ----------
> >From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
>
> > I once read that Brahms and Tchaikovsky met only one time. The account
> > stated that Brahms was visiting at the home of Edvard Grieg, and that
> > while they were having dinner, Tchaikovsky dropped by to visit. I would
> > like to know if this is true, and if anyone can supply a citation.
> >
> > The report went on to state that Brahms and Tchaikovsky took an immediate
> > dislike for each other.
> > I would really have liked to have been present on that occasion!
> >
> > I also have heard that there is a recording of the voice of Brahms,
> > speaking in English. He was a friend of Thomas Edison, and one of the
> > first people in Europe to benefit from Edison's inventions, including the
> > electric light bulb and the cylinder recording machine.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to obtain a copy of this recording?
> >
> > Ed Lacy
>
Try thr Library of Congress or the Smithsonian. Just a guess.

Mark Gustavson
Composer/Clarinetist
Instructor, Brooklyn College Prep Division
Principal Clarinet, Brooklyn Heights Orchestra

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