So the other day I was listening to our local classical music station in the car, and a nice harp concerto comes on. Very nice.
Not all florid and flowery like Mozart, just very tuneful and intelligently constructed. The composer, Krumpholz, I'd never heard of. Turns out he was a pretty well-known harpist and composer for harp in his day (1742-1790) but somewhat overlooked today.
So I did some searching when I got home. His music is out there, but it requires some searching. Amazon has a CD for $42. My download sites had nada. Apple Music had a few bits and pieces, but no full CDs. My local CD emporium, Silver Platters, had one CD of harp solos for a good price. YouTube had two 20-min concertos.
So I bought the solo CD, and downloaded the bits and pieces which together with the YT vids made one very full (79:51) CD-R. Perfect.
And wonderful stuff. Krumpholz is a generation earlier than Anton Reicha (1770-1836) which puts him closer to Mozart (1756-1791) than to Beethoven (1770-1827). Yet his style sounds more like Reicha & Beethoven than Wolfie, a style that only emerged after the French Revolution (1789).