Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 - 10 September 1916) is another German composer that, like Kiel, excelled in chamber music. The piano quartets/quintets are amazing, and you are missing out if you don't hear them!
Portamento
Sometimes I check out Romantic string quartets randomly and found these quartets by Gernsheim impressive. Very Brahmsian, Lush, and tuneful. The performance of Diogenes Quartett is smooth and gorgeous.
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I prefer his Violin concertos
Listening blind to the first movement of Gernsheim's Op 42 (composed in 1880), your reaction might well be the same as mine - how pleasant, how very like Mendelssohn at times and Bruch at others
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