Sunday, March 10, 2013
Listen Up: Franz Mittler Unsung
Posted on 7:30 AM by Unknown
New in Listen Magazine
Franz Mittler: An Affair of the Ear
The twentieth-century jack found many musical trades.
You might describe Mittler as the Francis Poulenc of Entartete Musik. His settings of poems by Wilhelm Busch—the godfather of cartoons—are priceless. And his adopted homeland didn't remain un-composed: The Manhattan Suite (1947) includes a "Song of the Subway" and "Waltzing
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