Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was an odd duck among mid-twentieth century composers, which was not wholly his fault. He was the longest-lived and most ardent disciple of pedagogue and composer Heinrich Kaminski, who had developed what he felt was a perfect stylistic synthesis of Germanic polyphony stemming from Bach to Bruckner. Kaminski was so concerned with the integrity of his circle that he founded a secret society, the "Order of Those who Love," as a means to protect them during the period of National Socialism. On the ...
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Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling was an odd duck among mid-twentieth century composers, which was not wholly his fault. He was the longest-lived and most ardent disciple of pedagogue and composer Heinrich Kaminski, who had developed what he felt was a perfect stylistic synthesis of Germanic polyphony stemming from Bach to Bruckner. Kaminski was so concerned with the integrity of his circle that he founded a secret society, the "Order of Those who Love," as a means to protect them during the period of National Socialism. On the contrary, all suffered, and Kaminski's favorite student, Heinz Schubert, died on the field of battle. When Kaminski died in 1946, Schwarz-Schilling was left behind as the sole living representative of the school, and he spent the rest of his life remaining true to it, despite the fact that no one around him really cared. Along the way, Schwarz-Schilling composed two symphonies, the Sinfonia diatonica (1957) and the Symphony in C (1963), both heard here on this Naxos recording featuring...
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