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The unknown German composer championed by Mahler

I once met a lady on the bus to Reading who claimed her father had studied with Liszt – Mrs Ball, it turns out, was not fibbing

Mrs Ball's father, the German composer Jean Paul Ertel, pictured in 1902  
issue 18 February 2023
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