There is one piece of esoteric music which I wish, above all others, the San Diego Symphony or La Jolla Symphony would perform. That music is Hans Rott’s First Symphony in E major. Rott wrote it when ...

The story of Hans Rott is a sad one – at the age of 22, he was committed to an asylum for pulling a firearm on a relatively innocent smoker on a train, as he was travelling to take up a chorus master ...

One of classical music’s greatest “what could have been” stories is that of Hans Rott, a highly talented and promising composer of the late 19th century. Although his life was tragically short, his ...

Alan Gilbert, the young American conductor who currently makes his musical home in Stockholm, brought an amazing late-19th-century work to his return to Houston. The Symphony in E Major of Hans Rott, ...

California Symphony explores the sphere of incredibly gifted people who influenced Gustav Mahler in its Mahler's Inner Circle concerts, featuring contralto Sara Couden performing Alma Mahler's Fünf ...

The little-known but greatly talented Austrian composer Hans Rott (1858-1884) will be the subject of the next musical evening organised by the German-Maltese Circle Classical Music Group, at Messina ...

Composer Hans Rott was highly praised by his teacher Anton Bruckner and a major inspiration to fellow student Gustav Mahler. Born in a Vienna suburb in 1858, Rott studied at a Vienna conservatory from ...