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PictureVICTOR EWALD: COMPOSER, CELLIST, ENGINEER
VICTOR EWALD
(b. 27 November 1860 - d. 16 April 1935)



​BRASS QUINTET 
No. 3, Op. 7 in D-flat major
(ca. 1912)​
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GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVICH

The Grand Duke was born in Saint Petersburg on 10 March 1845.  He became an  enthusiastic cornet player and would meet every Thursday evening at the Grand Hall of the Admiralty with fellow aristocrats, nobles and bandmasters to rehearse and perform brass chamber music.  
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The Octet of the Imperial Highness Cesarevich Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1872.
Standing (l–r): Prince Alexander Petrovich Oldenburg, Franz Osipovich Berger, Grand Duke Alexander, Count Alexander Vasilyevich Olsufiev, Fyodor Andreyevich Schreder, Franz Osipovich Terner. Seated (l–r): General Mikhail Viktorovich Polovtsov, Count Adam Vasilyevich Olsufiev, Alexander Alexandrovich Bers.

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The St. Petersburg composers who wrote Romantic era works for brass quintet  have come to be known as the "Russian Chamber Brass School" and include Alexander Alabiev, Ludwig Maurer, Wilhelm Ramsoe, Alexander Glazunov, Anton Simon, Oskar Bohme and Victor Ewald.  Their works cover a span of some sixty-six years, from 1846 to 1912.

Victor Ewald was the most noted composer of romantic style brass chamber music. For years it was thought that Ewald had written only one work for brass quintet, his opus 5 in B-flat minor.  

The discovery of three more Ewald brass quintet works happened because his son-in-law, Yevgeny Gippius, offered to give three manuscripts of Ewald to New York musicologist André M. Smith in 1964. It took Smith nine years to authenticate these works before they were first performed in 1973-74 by the American Brass Quintet in a series of Carnegie Recital Hall concerts.
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VICTOR EWALD
​BRASS QUINTET
No. 3, Op. 7 in D-flat major

(ca. 1912)


 Annapolis Brass Quintet
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet;
Arthur Brooks, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone;
Robert Posten, tuba


Performance at the
​University of Mary Washington

(formerly Mary Washington College) 
February 21, 1986
 Duration: (16:57)
To Listen Tap> Below
(There may be a 10 to 20 second delay before sound begins.)

 I. Allegro Moderato
II. Intermezzo
III. Andante
IV. Vivo

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THE FOUR QUINTETS OF VICTOR 
VLADIMIROVICH EWALD
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Quintet No. 4, Op. 8 in A-flat major (ca. 1888) 
Quintet No. 1, Op. 5 in B-flat minor (ca. 1890, pub. 1912)
Quintet No. 2, Op. 6 in E-flat major (ca. 1905)
Quintet No. 3, Op. 7 in D-flat major (ca. 1912) ​


​FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC


The score and parts for Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet No. 3, Op. 7 in D-flat major, along with the entire ABQ music library, ​are available for research and performance through the Oberlin Conservatory.
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Collection @ Oberlin
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