Leonard Bernstein And Bruckner

[dulcinea]

A poster on a YouTube video of one of Bruckner's symphonies--I forget which one--says that Bernstein took ideas from that symphony for his ON THE WATERFRONT score.
Is that true? Bernstein doesn't sound anything like Bruckner.
I just finished listening to the ORGAN SYMPHONY; how did Saint-Saens like the Swan from Linz?

[Wallingford]

It's rather unlikely Saint-Saens had much exposure to Bruckner's music until, perhaps, the last decade or so of his life (he did die in 1921).

No, among the Austrian masters, Saint-Saens focused on Beethoven and Mozart: a few years before he reached the age of ten, he could play all five Beethoven concertos, and probably several Mozart concertos. In his adulthood, he wrote a set of variations on a theme by Beethoven (for two pianos).

The main living master Saint-Saens was influenced by was Franz Liszt, whom he did a lot to promote during his lifetime--witness the tone poems he wrote (Danse macabre, Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Phaeton, and La Jeunesse d'Hercule).

It's likely that Saint-Saens respected and/or admired Mendelssohn, who was almost his equal as a child prodigy.

[some guy]

It's likely that Mendelssohn respected and/or admired Mendelssohn, who was almost his equal as a child prodigy.

Could you fix this typo? Now I'm curious about who respected who.

[Wallingford]

OK, now it's fixed above....thanks for the alert.

[some guy]

No problemo, as I remember saying when I was a kid in California.

I had to learn a new phrase when I got to Spain.

[dulcinea]

Is it true that the music of S-S was forbidden during the Nazi period because, like Mendelssohn, he was of Jewish ancestry?
Are there any famous musicians who are not of Jewish ancestry?

[John F]

A. Saint-Saëns wasn't of Jewish descent, but the Nazis did ban his music. B. Most of them. How about Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, for starters?

[dulcinea]

A. Saint-Saëns wasn't of Jewish descent, but the Nazis did ban his music. B. Most of them. How about Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, for starters?

A. Why?
B. The Bs are ten:
JS Bach
Bartok
Beethoven
Berlioz
Biber
Boccherini
Brahms
Britten
Bruckner
Byrd
Whom would you add?

[John F]

A. On suspicion that he was Jewish, I suppose. Who knows? And why does it matter to you? B. I wasn't starting a list of composers whose names start with B, but answering your odd question whether there were any famous musicians who weren't Jewish. You yourself just added seven more. So I guess your question was some kind of a joke.

[dulcinea]

A. On suspicion that he was Jewish, I suppose. Who knows? And why does it matter to you? B. I wasn't starting a list of composers whose names start with B, but answering your odd question whether there were any famous musicians who weren't Jewish. You yourself just added seven more. So I guess your question was some kind of a joke.

When I josh, it's obvious to everyone.
A. Since people like Otto Klemperer had to leave Europe because they were Jewish, I guessed that maybe that was the case with S-S.
B. I have always thought that Bulow was too provincial when he chose only Germans for his list of Bs, so I took up the challenge of looking further and farther for more Bs. Two Englishmen, one Hungarian, one Austrian, one Frenchman, one Italian and one Czech make for a quite cosmopolitan society of eminences, wouldn't you say?

[dulcinea]

A. On suspicion that he was Jewish, I suppose. Who knows? And why does it matter to you? B. I wasn't starting a list of composers whose names start with B, but answering your odd question whether there were any famous musicians who weren't Jewish. You yourself just added seven more. So I guess your question was some kind of a joke.

When I josh, it's obvious to everyone.
A. Since people like Otto Klemperer had to leave Europe because they were Jewish, I guessed that maybe that was the case with S-S.
B. I have always thought that Bulow was too provincial when he chose only Germans for his list of Bs, so I took up the challenge of looking further and farther for more Bs. Two Englishmen, one Hungarian, one Austrian, one Frenchman, one Italian and one Czech make for a quite cosmopolitan society of eminences, wouldn't you say?

I considered adding L Bernstein; however, his MASS is a really messy joke.