This album features the first-ever recordings of Richard Stöhr's Orchestral Music, Volume One.
Composer Biography
Richard Stöhr was forced to emigrate from Vienna to the US in 1939 due to the Anschluss, losing his livelihood and facing persecution as a Jewish person.
Performer Biography
Pianist and conductor Ian Hobson won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1981, and previously earned silver medals at both the Arthur Rubinstein and Vienna Beethoven competitions.
Composer Biography
Richard Stöhr was a highly influential teacher, instructing an estimated 10,000 students over 50 years, including notable figures like Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Marlene Dietrich.
Composer Biography
Richard Stöhr, born Richard Franz Stern, converted to Catholicism and changed his surname from Stern to Stöhr, a path also taken by Gustav Mahler to advance his imperial career.
Composition History
Richard Stöhr's Concert im alten Stil, Op. 68, was completed in 1937, but likely never performed or published due to the political turmoil of the Anschluss nine months later.
Composer Biography
Richard Stöhr was a prolific composer, with 141 opus numbers across all genres, including two operas, an oratorio, two cantatas, twenty orchestral works, and 41 chamber-music pieces.
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