Symfoni N:r 6 Op. 31 ("Dollar Symphony")

"Preisgekrönt anläßlich des Wettbewerbs für die Schubert - Jahrhundertfeier" "Awarded with the First Prize on the occasion of the Schubert Centenary Contest" Kurt Atterberg cond. the Philharm. Orch., Berlin (Universal Edition, Wien) Electrical Recording For the 100th anniversary of the death of Schubert in 1928, the Columbia Graphophone Company sponsored a worldwide symphony competition in which composers were to write a symphony completing, or inspired by, Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Atterberg entered his Symphony No. 6 in C major, Op. 31, and was awarded first prize, winning $10,000. The symphony, which was later known as the "Dollar Symphony", was recorded by Sir Thomas Beecham. Atterberg's recording taken in October 1928 is, of course, contemporaneous with Beecham's with the Royal Philharmonic on Columbia, which was recorded on August 12, 1928. The German concert premiere of the piece was October 15, 1928, in Cologne, by the Gürzenich Orchestra under Hermann Abendroth