Brahms, at least, knew of the competition from the prolific Lieder composer Carl Bohm (no relation, so far as I know, of the splendid conductor of the same name). His publisher Simrock reckoned that the profits from Bohm compensated for his losses on Brahms. One Lied, "Stille ist die Nacht", lingered longer than the rest and is rather nice if hardly great.
I mentioned earlier in this thread that Fats Waller, the great jazzman, studied at the Juillard school and that one of his teachers was
Leopold Godowsky. It seems he also studied with the German-born composer Carl Bohm (1844-1920) ultra-prolific composer of salon music bearing such titles as "Pluie de perles", "Petite bijouterie" and "Jeu de libelles" with 397 opus numbers to his credit many of them consisting of multiple separate pieces. The Wikipedia article says that he is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th. century....will somebody let Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms know about the competition ? Apparently he was also known as Henry Cooper which must be why his music packs such a punch.
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