“What music has lost with him can scarcely be measured”.

Thus Gustav Mahler, writing in 1900, described his former fellow-student Hans Rott (1858-1884). Nonetheless, it was nearly 90 years before the musical world took notice of the composer who died at the age of 25 in psychiatric care: the premiere in 1989 of the impressive E major symphony, which Rott completed when he was 22, marked the beginning of the rediscovery of this pupil of Bruckner and admirer of Wagner.

This volume brings tog...