Orchestral Music

Four Love Songs, op. 65

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
ca.
1908

Four Love Songs, op. 65, is a set of songs for voice and orchestra by Adolph M. Foerster. The songs in the set are “I Love Thee” (poetry by Thomas Hood),  “Love Thee, Dearest?” (poetry by Thomas Moore), “Love’s Litany” (poetry by Wallace Bruce), and “To See Thee, To Love Thee” (poetry by Thomas Moore). Manuscripts in the composer’s hand for the third song, “Love’s Litany,” are found in the Adolph M. Foerster Collection.

Hero and Leander, op. 44

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1897

For orchestra. The manuscripts are in Adolph M. Foerster’s hand. They are dated July 4, 1897.

Love Song, op. 23

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1887

“Love Song,” for soprano and orchestra, is a setting of a poem by Amelia Rives by Adolph M. Foerster. The manuscripts survive in the composer’s hand. 

Love Visions, op. 80

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1909

Adolph M. Foerster’s Love Visions, op. 80, was first published as a song for high voice and piano in 1909. Foerster then orchestrated the song, the manuscripts for which are dated May 1, 1913. The orchestral version was published by Schuberth in 1922.

Lyric Suite, op. 82

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1921

Adolph M. Foerster’s Lyric Suite, op. 82, is an orchestral piece in four movements. A manuscript full score of movements 2 and 4 indicates that they were performed on August 5, 1921, on a concert of Foerster’s music at Willow Grove Park. The other pieces included on the concert were Festival March, Op. 32; Prelude to Faust, Op. 48; Hero and Leander, Op. 44; and the premiere of Nuptial Feast, Op. 85.

The movements of Lyric Suite are:

1. Autumn Wanderings

2. Air for the G String

3. Berceuse

Mirskey Collection of Salon Orchestra and Silent Film Music

Born in Poland, Bronisław Mirski (1887–1927) was trained as a violinist and conductor. Around 1915 he relocated to the United States, where he became known as Nek (or Nicholas or Nick) Mirskey and began working as a theater orchestra conductor. At first he worked in small towns including Punxsutawney and DuBois, Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, pianist Genevieve Wilson. After their marriage in 1917, he sought work in larger cities and subsequently worked in Boston, Dallas, New York, and Kansas City.

Oetting, William H.

Date of Birth: 
1875
Date of Death: 
1969

William H. Oetting was an organist, composer, and educator.

Overture in A Minor

Artist (Composed By): 
Oetting, William H.
1900

For orchestra. The manuscript of the full score, found in the William Oetting Collection, is inscribed “Berlin 1900.”

Prelude to Goethe’s Faust, op. 48

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1915

The manuscripts for Adolph M. Foerster’s Prelude to Goethe’s Faust, op. 48, are dated March 18, 1898. The piece was published by Carl Fischer in New York in 1915. The composer’s manuscript of the full score, page proofs with corrections in the composer’s hand, and the final published score and parts are found in the Adolph M. Foerster Collection. 

Rosenblum, Mathew

Date of Birth: 
March 19, 1954

Mathew Rosenblum is an American composer. 

Pages