Thank you for recording this symphony! I am really very grateful because the music of Georg Andreas Henkel - who comes from my hometown - is very close to my heart. A few years ago I convinced the local cathedral choir to perform its unpublished "festival mass" (Festmesse op. 26). The recording of the service can also be found here on RUclips. The score of the symphony has been with me in the cupboard since then and unfortunately I didn't get around to looking after it. I am all the more grateful for your initiative! Perhaps you should know that Georg Andreas Henkel had a lot of bad luck in life. Born in Fulda in 1805, he represented his father Michael Henkel as cathedral organist at an early age. He was offered good positions several times - as court conductor and even as professor of counterpoint in Paris. But every time something came up. A serious accident in 1840 (he was seriously injured in the head by horses running through in a carriage) threw him on the sickbed for years. Then he worked as a music teacher at the grammar school in Fulda. Both the symphony and the festival mass originate from this second phase.
Thank you very much for sharing this! As you say he met with some bad luck in his life and most of his compositions appear to be lost. This Symphony, beautiful at places, well orchestrated, is unmistakably violent and bleak in atmosphere too: it probably reflects at least in part his emotional state of mind after the accident that you mentioned. Did you mean you have the manuscript of this Symphony with you? That's fantastic and what a great treasure to be sure!
@@tuomaspalojarvi3300 I must have expressed myself wrongly. I only have a photocopy of the score, of course. Thanks again for the wonderful sound experience!
Thank you for creating this simulation. I was about to do it myself -- you save me a lot of time and labour! The music is quite conservative and 'classical' for a Romantic symphony although I'm sure the Leipzig Conservatory and Mendelssohn would be more than happy with it. I love the little fugato that comes out of nowhere in the first movement.
Thanks! Note that this rendition is only based on the full score - undigitized manuscript parts also exist which I had no opportunity to study. There's also a fun little fugato in the middle of the 4th movement, at 22:50.
Wonderful music.
Artist: Ernesto Strigelly (German, 19th century)
A Winter Twilight in the Rhine Valley
Wonderful symphony. Thank you.
Thank you for recording this symphony! I am really very grateful because the music of Georg Andreas Henkel - who comes from my hometown - is very close to my heart.
A few years ago I convinced the local cathedral choir to perform its unpublished "festival mass" (Festmesse op. 26). The recording of the service can also be found here on RUclips.
The score of the symphony has been with me in the cupboard since then and unfortunately I didn't get around to looking after it. I am all the more grateful for your initiative!
Perhaps you should know that Georg Andreas Henkel had a lot of bad luck in life. Born in Fulda in 1805, he represented his father Michael Henkel as cathedral organist at an early age.
He was offered good positions several times - as court conductor and even as professor of counterpoint in Paris. But every time something came up. A serious accident in 1840 (he was seriously injured in the head by horses running through in a carriage) threw him on the sickbed for years. Then he worked as a music teacher at the grammar school in Fulda. Both the symphony and the festival mass originate from this second phase.
Thank you very much for sharing this! As you say he met with some bad luck in his life and most of his compositions appear to be lost. This Symphony, beautiful at places, well orchestrated, is unmistakably violent and bleak in atmosphere too: it probably reflects at least in part his emotional state of mind after the accident that you mentioned.
Did you mean you have the manuscript of this Symphony with you? That's fantastic and what a great treasure to be sure!
@@tuomaspalojarvi3300 I must have expressed myself wrongly. I only have a photocopy of the score, of course. Thanks again for the wonderful sound experience!
Thank you for creating this simulation. I was about to do it myself -- you save me a lot of time and labour! The music is quite conservative and 'classical' for a Romantic symphony although I'm sure the Leipzig Conservatory and Mendelssohn would be more than happy with it. I love the little fugato that comes out of nowhere in the first movement.
Thanks! Note that this rendition is only based on the full score - undigitized manuscript parts also exist which I had no opportunity to study.
There's also a fun little fugato in the middle of the 4th movement, at 22:50.
Thanks for doing it. Is the art works synthesized also?
Great work 💯💯💯
Wow - I never heard of that before! I love the powerful 1st movement and also many parts of the Finale !!!
Hints of Tchaikovsky evident..😊
Orchestra?
Noteperformer virtual instruments.
@@tuomaspalojarvi3300 🤔
@@leonardogarcia1832Yeah this was played by a computer program. Maybe one day it could be played (and recorded) by a real orchestra
Is he son of michael henkel?
I believe so, yes. Michael Henkel (1780-1851)
@@tuomaspalojarvi3300 Michael henkel flute works are under appreciated, hope you post them here
This symphony is not bad, but It's to bad it's not played by a real orchestra. It sounds to mechanical. Very stiff. Waste of time if you ask me.
A perfect orchestra would have played just like this...on perfect time....
Is it a waste of time to give a decent idea of how it could sound?
@@redgit9905 exactly...
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