Musik-Beilage zur Neuen Musik-Zeitung: obscure piano pieces 1880-1928
January 9, 2022 4:32 AM   Subscribe

"The earliest issues of the Neue Musik-Zeitung were anchored by short musical compositions, typically two pages in length for either solo piano or voice and piano, appearing on pages 2 and 3 of each issue... Beginning in the second year, music supplements were added in order to separate the notated music from the text. It is in these supplements that most printed music, advertisements, and the occasional catalogue can be found."

Among the magazine's sheet music are 10 new year pieces (such as Robert Goldbeck's Neujahrs-Erinnerungen), 26 Christmas pieces (such as Emil Graf's In Weihnachtsstimmung), 9 duets (such as Emil Ascher's Wiegenlied), and a mystery composer (who might just be a 133-year-old typo). More search filters in the Category Walker.

"In 1924 the journal’s format changed to closely resemble Die Musik, the larger and well-known journal then published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, also in Stuttgart... The journal ultimately merged into Die Musik formally in 1928."

"[Bernhard] Schuster was its editor-in-chief [of Die Musik] from inception until July 1933, when the publication was taken over by the Third Reich. The final publication... was February 1943."
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice (4 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
(A year ago I was trawling IMSLP looking for new-year-themed pieces, and noticed NMZ's header on several of the most beautiful ones. Thought it was time to share)
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 4:38 AM on January 9, 2022


This is lovely! What a trove!
posted by Dhertiiboi at 6:55 AM on January 9, 2022 [1 favorite]


Thanks for posting this! That Goldbeck piece is so charming.

I very rarely randomly browse on IMSLP, but I love when links to little unknown pieces like this come up. It’s a great reminder of just how much music was circulating at that time that’s outside of the realm of the established “masterpieces.”
posted by bkpiano at 1:34 PM on January 9, 2022 [1 favorite]


Light novels of the period sometimes have a page or two of score, and at least once the score was treated like dialogue - as though anyone reading the story had just read the music. Diagetic(?) music in print!
posted by clew at 3:43 PM on January 9, 2022 [1 favorite]


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