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In the historical Concert of the association of Rostock musicians came under line of ours
admired coworker, Dr. Kretzschmar for years a completely missing work, the c minor
Symphony of Norbert Burgmüller, with very good success to performance. One praises that
quasi novelty high musical worth after and means that itself the work still today beside the best symphonies of Schumann see to let may do, this partly on actual orchestra invention over is.

Sixth Gewandhaus concert.

The consideration of a Scherzo from the c minor Symphony of Norbert Burgmüller blew in worth
way the memory of a composer up, whose talent of none smaller than Robert Schumann became
very highly estimated. Close one gets used to with that desperate dramatist Grabbe Burgmüller is
in his art a not less strength-ingenious nature; everything within his production, is contentful enough
that one may feel obligated to remind of it. Perhaps is later once on a program area for the desired presentation of a complete Burgmüller Symphony.

Certainly the young artist his short life did not permit to create numerous works: all his composi-
tions reach therefore only the opusnumber 17. It is understandable that it in the same yet too
more fully does not mature arrive could. And nevertheless they state to one such richness and
such an abundance of talent, who we in that its premature loss on deepest ones to deplore must. Because we would have been entitled, after first and to expect unfortunately only work Burgmueller's the highest from it to. Even if now these hopes could not themselves fulfill, then one should never-  theless few, but so heavily weighing, which he completed, not thougtless with side to lie leave, but to study and performance again out-pull.

By him much piano compositions were not published except a concert, a polonaise, a sonata
and a rhapsody. All piano players searching forsomething beautiful, genuine one, distinctive one, are made on his rhapsody attentive. It is a picture of deep human content and artistically ingenious, simple execution, one of those nachtbilder, as they created Schumann and Kirchner in the majority. Who likes know, which memories or hopes of the friendly sky shape are the basis, the outbreaks of the raving passion puts aside again and again. On their design and introduction is based however the value and the magical effect of the strange composition.

Norbert Burgmüller, the brother of the shallow many writer Friedrich, highly-estimated by
Schumann and intimate friend of the poet Grabbe, in his f sharp Concerto, Rhapsody op.13,
Polonaise and f Sonata bend in the hitting of corner sets of concert and sonata with their
dramatically and tragically excited, night-dark and passionate sound of elegy to Spohr.

The old, above mentioned Burgmüller (Düsseldorf) a son, Norbert B., had about whose
extraordinary talent for composition in my youth still in high esteem was spoken. He died
however early, and his name has vanished.

Norbert Burgmüller. Concert in the small house.

The importance of Burgmüller is not at present everywhere after their real value recognized.
Burgmüller is one of the first representatives and creator of musical piano romantic, one that
first male nurse of the small musical character pictures, those of Robert Schumann to the latter
height led are. It is generally considered as characteristic of early romantic art that it in the
scarcely drawn rendition of a small tendency sees its substantial task has. As clear and clearly,
like responding Burgmüller in this direction has also in his songs the most diverse tendencies ingeniously to seize known. As swings in everyone of these inspired sets the whole personality
of the composer. So rarely Burgmüller in large flow of the musical life to be today called likes: extinguish completely, completely to the oblivion his music will never come!

Romantic around Grabbe.

The Lippische national orchestra played those under his conductor Hans Vogt quite soundful
1st Symphony in c minor of Norbert Burgmüller. It is the work of a genuine romantic,
between Euryanthe and Schumann and its way stands to Brahms already refers to. This
only as notion, in the content this is melodically noble and music worked well quite personal.
Momentum-fully the soft and flowing voices rushed up, in the particulars movements according
to romantic kind are related and in the somewhat homogeneous final even nearly quote literally
the beginning. It is a genuinly felt, still today binding piece.

Music around Grabbe.

From this Norbert Burgmüller the c minor Symphony to new sounding lives one aroused.
In it the chamber-musical borders by gentle force are as it were blown up. In that abundance
of the ideas and in the blessed melodic flow and stream stands for Burgmüller Franz Schubert
like brothers close. Most strongly presses itself by no large models confused characteristic of
Burgmüller perhaps is the third movement, the Scherzo out: with delicious humor are here march-similar topics full over courage and dance melodies of full intimateness merged with
one another.

Sometimes only one work of a composer is new and in the periphery otherwise not ascertainable colors into the picture to the romantic music brought. The early deceased Norbert Burgmüller had hardly time, the influence of his teachers Spohr and Hauptmann to overcome. But among his few published compositions a rhapsody is, which stands in color and spirit completely independently
beside Schumanns until 1836 written works and leads into areas advanced, which meant new ground
not conquered at that time yet. One becomes few pieces of piano to find know, in those isolation and wrong of romantic humans are so urgently expressed.

In the artistic ambiente of Düsseldorf at that time the strong language of the young
Burgmülle is noticeable. Never he is sentimentally, never theatralic or pathetic. He ex-
presses himself directly and admits a clear freshness, which today nothing from its
vitality has lost. Perhaps curiosity can be aroused, the desire, Burgmüller's symphonies
to let ring out again, to hear again. Musicians and listeners find in the works a task,
which holds their reward and satisfaction within itself.

Here now everyone can really hear, with which energy, with which strength of invention, which gamelike spirit the far away unknown Mr. Burgmüller composed! Reminded at most
all this actually to Mendelssohn, with whom Burgmüller was also friendly, but it speaks nevertheless its own musical language.

       Out of conventional level of the Biedermeier this music rises up like a cathedral in the desert:
       too hardly understandable that it was considered so far so little.

Indeed Burgmüller's work proves a slightly limited and partly more fragmentarily, but nevertheless multiform cosmos of high characteristic, which hardly epigonale courses recognize and with that the attribute leaves of a "romantischer Kleimeister", with which so gladly and thoughtlessly one operates, would be completely inappropriate. The influence of Beethoven, in particular in the Symphonies, and his teacher Spohr, those itself probably hardly a composer of its generation to extract could, are clearly recognizable, but already relative to early one individual musical language emerged, in that lyric easingness, sensitive harmonic, colored, only occasionally somewhat thick instrumentation into the forms of the classical period breakless are merged. The new, partly far into the future, on Schumann, on Brahms, who of Burgmüller's works partly in his library had, on Brucker pointing, estimated its often of deep melancholy, bursting expression and dramatic tension witnessing music is as it were under the surface hidden by forms, those from the models were taken over, but developed further at the same time.

        The 15-year-old Burgmüller does show a great deal of ambition and surely puts his teacher Spohr
         in the shade. For a 15 to write a strong, original, assured work in a genre that was perceived as
         old-fashioned in a prodigious thing and marks a young man who expects to follow Beethoven to
         musical heights that would make his father giddy and fearful. I would not call the Second Quartet
         a masterwork; that designation save for the Fourth Quartet. I have not heard Burgmüller's two
         symphonies, but having heard now the Fourth Quartet ,I shall seek them out if only to confirm
         my suspicion that the Fourth Quartet is the young composer's masterpiece. That music has the
         gravity of a Beethoven quartet and the emotional range of Schubert's last quartet.