Koessler: Symphony in B Minor & Passacaglia Concerto in A Minor
12/19/2025, 5 Tracks, 1:10:05
Featuring
Fedor Rudin
Rudolf Piehlmayer
Nürnberger Symphoniker
Hans Koessler
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Instruments
Fedor Rudin, the violinist on this recording, plays the 1712 'ex-Viotti' Antonio Stradivari violin, on loan from CANIMEX INC.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Koessler believed that teachers had a duty to provide their students with their own compositions as model solutions for studying different musical genres.
Compositional Technique
Koessler's Symphony in B minor combines the classical-romantic four-movement model with tonal and illustrative elements of the New German School, paying tribute to Liszt, Berlioz, and Bruckner.
Performer Biography
Fedor Rudin, the violinist, previously served as concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, gaining insight into orchestral performance at the highest level.
Recording & Production
The Symphony in B minor, likely composed before 1900, remained unpublished, and its score had to be reconstructed from surviving performance parts for this recording.
Composer Biography
Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger, studied at the Munich Conservatory and later became a composition teacher at the Hungarian Music Academy founded by Franz Liszt.
Composer Biography
Hans Koessler, the composer, taught the first generation of Hungarian composers, interpreters, and musicologists, including Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály.
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