Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93

JEREMY NICHOLAS

Spina, the Viennese music publishers founded in 1824 by Anton Spina (1790-1857) and Anton Diabelli, issued a volume of Six transcriptions d’après les oeuvres de Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart by Julius Schulhoff: two Mozart quartet movements, two Beethoven symphony movements, a Haydn minuet and this Largo ‘de la Symphonie en re’. The collection was dedicated ‘À Madame Betty Schott née de Braunrasch!’ (note the exclamation mark), who was the wife of the publisher Franz Philipp Schott. Frau Schott, not surprisingly given her station, was the recipient of many dedications from the likes of Raff, Leybach, Ferdinand Hiller and, most famously, Wagner, whose final piano work bears her name. Julius Schulhoff (sometimes given as Jules) was born in Prague in 1825 and is now entirely forgotten. The first edition of Grove,…

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International Piano (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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