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| | CD Spotlight. A monumental work - Hans Rott's Symphony in E, with Patric Standford. '... outstanding recording.' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The life of Hans Rott was cruelly short and yet among his few compositions there was one, a great symphony, that made a powerful impression on his organ teacher, Anton Bruckner, and had a significant influence on the work of his contemporaries, notably Gustav Mahler, two years his junior. |
 | | The story, briefly, is this: Rott was born in Vienna on 1 August 1858, the son of an actor and his mistress who eventually married in 1862 after the death of the actor's wife. |
 | | At the age of fourteen his mother died, and two years later Rott entered the Vienna Conservatoire, but family circumstances deteriorated; his father died and he was forced to leave studies for an office job, but in due course found an organist post with free lodging. |
| www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/10/rott1.htm (254 words) |
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