To Phil Klein and
to Dr. Alan Krueck,
without whom this couldn’t
exist
Table of Contents
Bruckner,
Strauss and Hausegger
Other compositions
and writings
Why Siegmund
von Hausegger?
Hausegger’s
name came to me in a triple coincidence, all three events occurring in the same
week. I was reading Finck’s biography of Richard
Strauss, where Strauss mentioned Hausegger as an up
and coming talent. The musicologist Dr. Alan Krueck
gave me an impromptu “Who wrote this and when?” quiz, showing me what turned
out to be two pages from the Natursymphonie. (Got the date OK; missed the composer.)
Finally, an obituary for Hausegger in Slonimsky’s Music
Since 1900 described his music as “…Wagnerously
ponderous…feudally Teutonic… Nietzscheanly forensic”. As a lifelong partisan for German
Post-Romanticism, I figured that music provoking such criticism was clearly
worth knowing. So it began.
D O’C