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Charles Martin Loeffler
12+ albums
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Charles Martin Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American composer. Throughout his career Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace and almost all music encyclopedias give this fabricated information. In his lifetime articles were published dissecting his "typically Alsatian" temperament! In fact, as his biographer Ellen Knight has established, he was German—indeed a Prussian, and a Berliner on both sides of his family, born Martin Karl Löffler in Schöneberg near Berlin. He turned against Germany when the Prussian authorities imprisoned his father, an agricultural chemist and author of Republican ideals. (Loeffler senior wrote journalism under the name 'Tornov' or 'Tornow', and his son sometimes used this as one of his middle names.) Loeffler was only about 12 when his father was imprisoned; he spent the rest of his life in prison, dying of a stroke before he was due to be released. Before his father's arrest the family had moved around a good deal, including a period in Alsace, and then to Smiela near Kiev, while Loeffler was still a small child. Later they lived in Hungary and Switzerland. Loeffler decided to become a violinist and studied in Berlin with Joseph Joachim, Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar Bargiel, then with Joseph Massart (and composition with Ernest Guiraud) in Paris. He played with the Pasdeloup Orchestra and in 1881 emigrated to the United States, where he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra and shared the first desk wi
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Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass: II. Adagio molto
962Quintet, "Lyrisches Kammermusikstuck - Eine Fruhlingsmusik": Allegro commodo
923Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass: I. Allegro moderato
8044 Poèmes, Op. 5: No. 1, La cloche fêlée
6654 Poèmes, Op. 5: No. 4, Sérénade
606Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass: III. Andante; Allegro alla Zingara
597Timbres oubliés (Arr. for Clarinet and Harp by Graeme Steele Johnson and Bridget Kibbey)
578Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 5: La cloche fêlée
349Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 5: Serenade
28102 Rapsodies: No. 1. L'Etang
27albums
Forgotten Sounds
LOEFFLER: Music for Stringed Instruments / String Quartet
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Douce France
Charles Martin Loeffler: Orchestral Works
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Loeffler: Forgotten Songs
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Loeffler: Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass: II. Adagio molto
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Octet for 2 Clarinets, Harp & String Quintet: II. Adagio molto
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Loeffler: Divertissement Espagnol & La Villanelle Du Diable
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La Mort de Tintagiles & 5 Irish Fantasies (Indianapolis SO, John Nelson cond.)
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Loeffler: 2 Rhapsodies / Hindemith: Trios / Klughardt: Schilflieder / Kahn: Serenade
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By the Rivers of Babylon - American Psalmody, Vol. II
Loeffler: A Dream Within a Dream