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Here are three short pieces by the colourful German composer Paul Colberg (1863-1926). He started working life as a mechanic, switched to music, and left for America in 1888 with his studies at the Dresden Conservatory incomplete. He seems to have worked at a private music school in Los Angeles, but then returned to Germany in 1901via various European countries, including a four year stay in London from 1896 - which is where this set of pieces was composed and published in 1898. After his return to Germany he worked in Dresden as a conductor, teacher and pianist, and, intriguingly, wrote two orchestral melodramas with spoken voice in 1910-11. These pieces are dedicated to the British music critic and librettist Alfred Kalisch (1863-1933) who is remembered particularly for his English translations of several early Richard Strauss operas.

Of the three pieces here, the third does have the feel of a makeweight - perhaps taken from some student exercises to make up a set. I find the first two far more interesting.
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