1935 Selmar MEYROWITZ Carl Maria v WEBER OBERON OVERTURE Paris 78

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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

      

German-Jewish Conductor Selmar Meyrowitz is - despite his large output on Ultraphon-Telefunken, underappreciated and enigmatic. He was born  18 Apr 1875  Bartenstein, Ostpreussen now Bartoszyce, Poland  and died: 24 Mar 1941  Toulouse, France. Being a successful member of the Berlin Cultural scene, he had his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic on 16 Apr 1909. Meyrowitz was forced to flee Germany after the Nazi Takeover in 1933, though Telefunken continued to issue his recordings with no conductor mentioned - similar to what Victor did to Karl Muck in 1918.

Meyrowitz’s recordings made in Paris included, as well as such usual short works as the overture to Weber’s Oberon, larger-scale repertoire: for instance the first recording of Liszt’s Faust Symphony, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’, and Liszt’s Les Préludes, Hungarian Fantasy, Totentanz, and orchestral arrangement of Schubert’s ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, the last three with the pianist Edward Kilenyi.

Carl Maria v Weber OBERON OVERTURE 1&2

Grand Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris

Selmar Meyrowitz

 Enregistré à Paris en mars 1935.

On ne peut vraiment dire que le nom de Selmar Meyrowitz, élève de Carl Reinecke et de Max Bruch, dise encore grand-chose aux discophiles d’aujourd’hui. Et pourtant ce chef d’orchestre allemand – de son vrai nom Salomon Reinmar Meyrowitz – acquit une certaine renommée en devenant le premier à graver, en 1935 à Paris, la Faust-Symphonie de Liszt, que d’aucuns estiment être toujours la meilleure version commise au disque, surclassant même les deux enregistrements de Leonard Bernstein… Mais hélas, trois fois hélas, la version est quelque peu tronquée…

12"  PATHE 78 rpm 

Condition:

EXCELLENT, tiny 3 mm faint scratch end of 1, plays amazing E+ very very quiet 

Selmar Meyrowitz (18 April 1875 - 24 March 1941) was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Reinecke and Jadassohn, and then spent three years studying with Max Bruch in Berlin, where he was noticed by Felix Mottl. Mottl took him on as his assistant at the Karlsruhe Opera in 1897, and later, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1900, Meyrowitz went with him. While in America Meyrowitz accompanied Johanna Gadski on tour, and following his return to Europe in 1905 he held conducting posts in several of the leading opera houses of the continent: the Prague National Theatre (1905–1906), the Berlin Komische Oper (1907–1910), the Munich Court Opera (1912–1914), and the Hamburg State Opera (1914–1918). Subsequently based in Berlin, he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1918 and 1923 and the Blüthner Orchestra in 1920; he also conducted at Berlin Radio, as well as further afield in Hamburg, Vienna and Rome. From 1924 to 1933 he was a conductor at the Berlin State Opera, alongside Erich Kleiber and George Szell, and returned to the USA as the conductor of the German Grand Opera Company, which toured America between 1929 and 1931. Following the rise to power of Hitler’s National Socialist government in Germany in 1933, Meyrowitz moved to Paris where he remained for the rest of his life. Here among much else he conducted the first French production of Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschen Oper in 1937.

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