This is an interesting NTT. I (Will) highly suspect it of being German, but there's an outside chance it could be French, or Bohemian in a pinch.
When I heard that first scale, I thought Mozart, but just a couple bars later, I was disabused of that notion by the harmonies and orchestration. Then I thought maybe Schubert, but the orchestration seems a bit unmoored for him. Not so unmoored as to guess Schumann, however.
But I think we're squarely in that early Romantic 1830s period. If I wanted to go for randos, I'd pick people like Kuhlau and Méhul. Weber? I don't know anything about hip-diseased composers I'm afraid!
NTT: I'm landing early 1800s. The only hip-related knowledge I can think of is Berlioz complaining in his memoirs about his hip when he was older, but I don't know if that was a life-long issue. I could see this being him, though, so he'll be in my basket. I'll throw in Weber and Spohr as well.
This is an interesting NTT. I (Will) highly suspect it of being German, but there's an outside chance it could be French, or Bohemian in a pinch.
When I heard that first scale, I thought Mozart, but just a couple bars later, I was disabused of that notion by the harmonies and orchestration. Then I thought maybe Schubert, but the orchestration seems a bit unmoored for him. Not so unmoored as to guess Schumann, however.
But I think we're squarely in that early Romantic 1830s period. If I wanted to go for randos, I'd pick people like Kuhlau and Méhul. Weber? I don't know anything about hip-diseased composers I'm afraid!
NTT: I'm landing early 1800s. The only hip-related knowledge I can think of is Berlioz complaining in his memoirs about his hip when he was older, but I don't know if that was a life-long issue. I could see this being him, though, so he'll be in my basket. I'll throw in Weber and Spohr as well.