The IMSLP site has numerous examples of Bohm's work available. I found one song with the title (English translation) "Ah me, poor maid, what have I done?" the lyrics of which begin:
"Ah me poor maid what have I done that friends, once kind, my glance should shun?"
The explanation appears in the next strophe,
"I only sought the leafy glade to hear the sweet birds sing above,
Am I to blame that on my way I met a dark-eyed boy that day?"
A cautionary tale indeed, and I guarantee that Fats Waller didn't have the poor maid in mind when he wrote "Ain't Misbehavin' "
Bohm is one of those characters who proliferated towards the end of the 19th. century who, quite able to compose well-crafted music of larger proportions, owe their reputation largely to reams and reams of small pieces in lighter style; some others are Nikolai von Wilm, Edouard Schutt and Benjamin Godard. Many of these smaller pieces are, in actual fact, quite charming and worth an occasional airing.
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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