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Re: Rudolf Jettel

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-03-27 00:38

Spent a lot of time with several of Jettel's excellent studies, and used to give them to students after they'd done some Uhl. A similar story is told about the bassoonist Hugo Burghauser, to whom the Strauss Duet Concertino is dedicated. He was the elected President of the Vienna Phil, and was married to a Jewish woman, although they were in the process of going their separate ways at the time. In 1936, he was ordered to dismiss the Jewish musicians, and refused to do so. Not long afterward, he was out of a job and on his way out of Austria. Don't know whether either or both are true. From 1933, they apparently didn't have a formal music director, but Furtwängler was the main conductor, so both are plausible. I'm guessing the Strauss dedication was at least partly a response to the incident, though: "Hugo Burghauser, dem Getreuen." He later remarked that Strauss was a lot better at conducting than at cards.

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