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Robert Fuchs, the master of the romantic, large-scale musical lyricism, is being reappraised. The rediscovery of his almost forgotten output has added a bouquet of lovely creations to the chamber music repertoire. From duos to quintets, they offer musicians many unforgettable, rapturous hours of enjoyment. Fuchs succeeded in fusing the melodic inventiveness of Schubert, the dreamy introspection of Brahms and the gem-like small-scale forms of Schumann into a richly modulatory idiom whose indulgent emotionality is the embodiment of a 'dying Viennese bourgois culture'. No virtuosic superstructure disturbs the harmonic and instrumental balance of his pieces, written for the most diverse combinations and often favouring the viola. Max Graf's enlogy of 1898 is prophetic of the renaissance of the works by 'this modest great man, whose music wondrously combines serene sentiment, reflective humour and childlike fervour, and whose works' tender sensuousness help us forget the struggle and quarrelsome noise outside.' We have great need of this today. Born in Frauenthal (Steiermark) on 15 February 1847, the youngest of 13 children in a teacher's family, Robert began his musical education at seven with brother-in-law Bischof in Wies (violin, flute, piano and organ). He spent his grammar school years in Graz. In 1865, at the urging of his friend Wilhelm Gericke, he moved to Vienna, where he kept himself afloat by teachimg and coaching. After successfully completing his studies at the Conservatoire, a post as organist and a state grant secured him a living. In 1874 he gained worldwide recognition as a composer with the first of his 5 string serenades. For the year 1875/76 Fuchs was appointed to direct the orchestral society of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. At the same time he was engaged to teach harmony at the Conservatoire, and later appointed professor of all theoretical subjects and composition. His pupils included Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schmidt, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker. As composer, teacher and performer, Fuchs was one of the most influential personalities in Viennese musical culture at the turn of the century. His close ties to his patron and friend Johannes Brahms were of great importance to his output. Greatly esteemed, Robert Fuchs died on 19 February 1927 in Vienna. The compositional oeuvre, covering almost every genre, comprises some 120 opus numbers: besides very important chamber music (4 string quartets, a clarinet quintet, ten sonatas for violin, viola, violoncello and double bass with piano, 4 piano trios, 2 piano quartets, string trios), he wrote 4 symphonies, a piano concerto, an opera, Masses, choral works, pieces for piano und piano duet, organ works and lieder.
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edited by Bernhard Pauler
