Karl Goepfart: Wind Quartet, Op. 93 (1907)

00:00 - I. Allegro risoluto
08:34 - II. Scherzo: Vivace
10:54 - III. Fuga: Allegro vivo, con bravura
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Ensemble: Renaissance City Winds
Year of Recording: 2005
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"Karl Eduard Goepfart was born in 1859 in Mönchenholzen near Erfurt, the son of a teacher. At an early age he received music lessons from his father, later at the music school in Weimar (piano with Franz Liszt). After his first engagement as a conductor in 1875-1876 in Baltimore, he returned to Germany, where he received his final musical studies in Weimar. He was active as a conductor and choirmaster in several cities. He died in Weimar in 1942. Today Goepfart is nearly unknown. Listed with his own entry in the old dictionary of Hugo Riemann, one finds nothing at all in the new MGG, a fate he shares with Gustav Schreck, whose Sonata for Bassoon (ACC 1532) was published nearly in the same year as Goepfart's "Two-Character Pieces op. 31" at Merseburger in Leipzig, around 1890. His chamber music is always enjoyable to listen to and to play; for example, his beautiful Trio in G minor for piano, clarinet, and bassoon." (TrevCo Music)
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With a name like that I can see this guy as a bit.... windy! Hahaha

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Jaja

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thanks!

[@gbeachy2010]

What a nice piece. Is this composer's work performed often?