Louis, Rudolf

Louis, Rudolf – Proteus, Symphonische Phantasie für großes Orchester und Orgel ad libitum (1899 / revidiert 1903)

(born in Schwetzingen, January 30, 1870 — died in Munich, November 15, 1914)

incl. additional booklet with documents on “Proteus”, edited by Cornelius Witthoefft

I. (Einleitung) (S. 7)
II. (Aufschwung) (S. 22)
III. (Gewitter und Sturm) (S. 38)
IV. (»Blumenstück« und Lied der Nachtigall) (S. 59)
V. (Finale) (S. 69)1

Orchesterbesetzung:
3 (auch Picc.), 2, Eh., 2, Bkl., 3 — 4, 3, 3, Tb. — Pk., Schlgz. (gr. Tr., TT, Bck., Trgl., Glsp.), 2 Hrf., Org. (ad lib.), Str

Preface
Rudolf Louis — music writer, music critic, music theorist, and composer Although the name Rudolf Louis has never been entirely forgotten, it has been preserved for posterity primarily in the field of writing rather than composing, particularly in the disciplines of music criticism and music theory. This reissue of his Symphonic Phantasy Proteus puts him up to discussion again as a composer some 120 years after its initial publication. Born in 1870 in Schwetzingen, Baden, to a family of Huguenot descent and the son of a physician, Rudolf Louis initially studied philosophy in Vienna and, at the age of merely 22, submitted his dissertation in that field,2 which was intended as a refinement of the musical aesthetics of the Schopenhauerian Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881). As Louis emphasized in the preface, he regarded himself in this work “more as a philosophizing musician than as a music-making philosopher.”3 By labeling himself a ‘philosophizing musician,’ he aptly described an attitude that also underlies his later writings on music and his music criticism, and which is likewise reflected in the compositional strategies of his Proteus. …

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