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Fuchs, Robert
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Eric Schissel examines him as composer rather than teacher, looking for works demanding special commendation.
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After training as a teacher in Graz, he studied under Hellmesberger and others in Vienna. After two years at conservatory, he presented in 1867 a symphony (not one of the canonical three) as his examination...Program notes by Benjamin M. Korstvedt for the American Symphony Orchestra explore both his life and music.
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Fuchs, Symphony No. 3 One of the most obvious results of this juxtaposition is to highlight the stylistic distance between the teacher and his students, all three of whom were imbued in various ways with the spirit of modernism,...Biography notes the quality of his compositions and also shows him as teacher of other exceptional composers, organist, and conductor. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
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Brief biographical sketch and Naxos discography.
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Composer Fuchs appears often in the biographies of his distinguished pupils at the Vienna Conservatory, including Mahler, Sibelius, Hugo Wolf and Zemlinsky. He won his first success as a composer in Vienna in the 1870s and...Karadar dictionary entry with life, comments on works, and related composers.
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- Classical Music Dictionary Free MP3 Fuchs often appears in the biographies of his distinguished pupils, including Mahler, Sibelius, Hugo Wolf and Zemlinsky, at the Vienna Conservatoire. Robert Fuchs Works He won his first success as a composer in Vienna in...