Franz Drdla composed a violin concerto, the Concert D moll pour violon avec accompagnement de piano ou d'orchestre, op. 245. According to WorldCat, there is only one copy in the US, at Claremont College in California; and two copies in Germany, in Mecklenburg and Hamburg. Evidently, from reviews at the time Drdla performed it, this work was considered significant. To restore this work to the concert repertoire, it would be necessary to uncover both the reduction for violin and the full score for violin and orchestra. Can anyone help in this search?
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Drdla Violin Concerto
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kalliwoda
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Re: Drdla Violin Concerto
The work is still registered with GEMA, free in 2015. Birnbach Musikverlag - seems they have it as rental.
no website email: INFO@BIRNBACH-MUSIKVERLAG.DE
Berlin SBB has two different editions of the Piano Reduction.
no website email: INFO@BIRNBACH-MUSIKVERLAG.DE
Berlin SBB has two different editions of the Piano Reduction.
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Re: Drdla Violin Concerto
I have the violin and piano parts but no orchestra parts or full score.
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Re: Drdla Violin Concerto
Can find no indication of it on the Birnbach web site...
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Re: Drdla Violin Concerto
That Jon Frohnen has the violin and vn/piano part for this concerto is welcome news. Jon, can you please scan and upload them to IMSLP. That is at least two steps in the right direction. The vn/pf reduction will not be PD in the US, since it was published in 1931. Drdla died in 1944, so he should be PD in Canada and the EU. Birnbach Musikverlag is still in existence, but I couldn't find any mention of this work on its website.