Erste Symphonie in D Minor
Sieben Goethelieder
So Schön war jene Stunde
Zwei Lieder
Grosser Kinderliederzyklus
Kleiner Kinderliederzyklus
Drei Lieder

Martin Scherber was born in 1907 in Nuremberg. He was a confirmed loner and little is known about his career. At the age of just five he played the violin and started to imitate things he had heard on the piano. He showed great reluctance to learn to read music, but soon acquired remarkable skill at piano improvisation. At the age of thirteen he started to compose. He appeared in public for the first time as a pianist in Nuremberg in 1922, and first presented compositions of his own the following year. During the Second World War he served as a soldier, and following the war he devoted himself to teaching and composition.

Martin Scherber’s oeuvre is modest in size. He worked for years on each of his symphonies. In addition, between 1930 and 1937 he composed several song cycles (including 27 children’s songs) and individual songs to texts by Goethe, Morgenstern, Novalis and himself.

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Recordings: 16 & 17 August 2014 at Studio 1, Slovak Radio, Bratislava (Tracks 1-4); 6 & 7 April 2009, Great Hall of Hochschulle fur Musik und Kunst (Tracks 5-11); 9, 10, 14 & 15 March 2006 Great Hall of Hochshulle (Tracks 13-44)