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Music of the United States of America
[Recent Researches in American Music]Surviving Orchestral Music
| MU17 / A 62 | ISBN 0-89579-619-8 (10-digit) | (October 2007) | lxxxiii + 270 pp. | $145.00 |
| ISBN 978-0-89579-619-6 (13-digit) | ||||
| Orchestral parts will be available for rental only. |
Charles Hommann (1803–ca. 1872) was a Philadelphia-born musician and composer during the years in which instrumental music, especially European classical music, became increasingly prominent in the United States. He was encouraged by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, an organization founded in 1820, to aid its aging musician members and dedicated to “the cultivation of skill and diffusion of taste in music.” Hommann's surviving orchestral compositions—two overtures and a symphony—seem a fitting response to the musical environment created by the Society and its members.
None of Hommann’s orchestral works was published. This edition
of Hommann's three extant orchestral works, accompanied by an essay that
discusses his cultural and historical milieu, will bring deserved attention
to the enterprising Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and make accessible
for study and performance the earliest known products of an emerging tradition
of notable orchestral works by native-born American composers.
Contents:
Symphony in E-flat Major
Overture in D ("Weiss")
Overture in D ("Prize")