![]() And yet, listening to the music on this album, we can say that, if not a genius on the same Olympian level as Weber, Hummel or Chopin, he was an accomplished and prolific composer of impressive achievements. Little of his output can have featured on any concert programme for many a long year. Few will have heard of him or a note of his music (though some of it remains in print and is readily available). ![]() Why? Because a list of all the composers-good, bad and indifferent-actively writing music and having it published during the nineteenth century reveals almost the same proportion: one tenth of the names on that list would be more or less familiar today-names above the waterline, as it were the remaining ninety per cent continue to be submerged, half-remembered or totally forgotten, despite achieving fame and acclaim during their lives.Īmong that ninety per cent is Aloys Schmitt. With global warming the great issue de nos jours, it is an appropriate metaphor to introduce the composer of the three works presented here. It is a well-known fact that approximately ninety per cent of an iceberg is underwater.
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