Charles Martin Loeffler – Memories of My Childhood (1924)

Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American violinist and composer.

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Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian village) (1924)

1. Andante (0:00)
2. God Have Mercy on Us (3:10)
3. Happiest of Days! (4:09)
4. Dance Song (5:24)
5. Death of Vasinka (7:53)

Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra conducted by Howard Hanson

Dates of composition are all different, some say 1923, others 1924. I also saw 1925 and even later. I picked 1924 as it is most mentioned.
If anybody has some information about the piece, please let me know.

Loeffler was a fastidious composer who composed carefully, frequently revising his compositions. Some of his works are lost. His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles (after Maeterlinck), La Bonne Chanson (after Verlaine), A Pagan Poem (after Virgil), and Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies (to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan), and the chamber works Music for Four Stringed Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano. The Music for Four Stringed Instruments was written in 1917 after his friend John Jay Chapman’s son Victor became the first American aviator to die in World War I. Chapman published his son’s letters in 1917 and Loeffler was inspired to write this string quartet as a combination meditation and memorial.

His Divertissement for violin and orchestra was premiered in Berlin in 1905 by Karel Halíř, under the baton of Richard Strauss, at the same concert at which Halíř premiered the revised version of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. Fritz Kreisler and Eugène Ysaÿe had declined to play the Divertissement because of its technical demands.

He composed the Fantastic Concert for cello and orchestra, which premiered in 1894 with Alwin Schroeder as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Entertainment for violin and orchestra (1895).

He composed the symphonic poem La Villanelle du Diable in 1901. This work is inspired by the eponymous poem by Rollinat, and dedicated to Franz Kneisel. It was premiered in April 1902 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Wilhelm Gericke, and published by Schirmer in 1905. He later reworked the piece for orchestra and organ; this version was performed by the BSO in January 1910.

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