Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a prot?g? of Brahms and Mahler. Despite this, he was overshadowed by the composers of the second Viennese school, and for many years after his death was remembered merely as the brother-in-law of Schoenberg. But with centenary celebrations of Zemlinsky's birth, scholars began a careful examination of his works and realized they had discovered a forgotten master. Zemlinsky's wonderful melodic gift was manifested in operas, choral works, chamber music, and symphonic pieces, but was realized most fully in his more than one hundred songs.
In this important new studythe first such work in EnglishLorraine Gorrell focuses on these songs, revealing the ways in which they represented a bridge between the 19th-century romantic lied and the 20th-century avant-garde. Of interest to scholars studying both the German art song and the development of the second Viennese school, Gorrell's work uses Zemlinsky's songs as a lens through which to examine an important, highly influential musical figure.
LORRAINE GORRELL is Professor of Music and an artist and performer at Winthrop University in South Carolina. Educated at Hood College and Yale University, she has contributed to such journals as
The Music Reviewand
Music and Musicians, and is the author of
The Nineteenth-Century German Lied.
Preface
Introduction
Fin de si?cle Vienna
Getting Started
The Real World
Prague
Berlin
The Gates of Hell Had Opened
Flight
Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Schoenberg's Circle
Zemlinsky and the Eternal Feminine, Alma Schindler
Poetry and Song
The Songs
Apprenticeship: Early Unpublished Songs
A New Path: Unpublished Songs
Maturity
Unpublished Songs of 1916
Symphonic Songs
Two Songs
Appendix
Bibliography
Song Index: Listing by Title
Subject Index
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