Talk:Richard Wüerst

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[edit] Three symphonies?

The third symphony is opus 36 in C minor, published in 1862; an opus 54 in D minor followed later. Were they published out of chronological order, or were there more than three? (Source: Walter Frisch, Brahms: The Four Symphonies. New Haven: Yale University Press (2003): 7 - 10. ISBN 0300099657. Table 1-1, "A chronological listing of symphonies by contemporary composers published in the Austro-German sphere in the period between Schumann's Third and Brahms's First." Wüerst's D minor is listed under 1869 (its date of publication, as Frisch explains in a note on page 10). Schissel | Sound the Note! 14:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC) (note: Frisch's list also includes the Prize Symphony op. 21 in F published in 1852, so that might be three in all, yes. Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Further on symphony no. 3: the 1864 AMZ, pages 172-6 (downloadable free from Google Books), contain a review of this work (PDF pages 100-2) noting "Seiner Majestät Wilhelm L. König von Preussen zur Feier der Krönung am 13. October 1861" (the scan is difficult to read, but I believe that's it.) So the 3rd symphony in fact may date from 1861? Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)