Alexander von Zemlinsky

Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conductor and a teacher. Alexander von Zemlinsky - Early Life. Zemlinsky was born in Vienna and studied the piano from a young age. He played the organ in his synagogue on holidays, and was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory in 1884. There he studied the piano with Anton Door, winning the school's piano prize in 1890. He also took composition lessons, and began to write pieces. ...

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Alexander von Zemlinsky - Orchestral Works. Symphony (No. 1) for orchestra (1891, fragment) Symphony No.1 (No. 2) for orchestra (1892/1892) Suite for Orchestra (c.1895) Symphonie No.2 (No. 3) for orchestra (1897) Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit for orchestra (1902) Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid) for orchestra (1902/03, premiered in Vienna in 1905) Lyric Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra op.18 (after poems by Rabindranath Tagore) (1922/23) Sinfonietta ...

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows. He was also an important music theorist and an influential teacher of composition. Arnold Schoenberg - Biography. Arn ...

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The following list is an election of famous Austrians. For full lists of all famous Austrians please view the sublists. Note: This list is rather inclusive -- some people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were born in Austria, but spent the most important part of their lives outside Austria (e.g. Hitler, Schwarzenegger), others were born outside Austria or even outside of Austria-Hungary, but spent the most important part of their lives in Austria (e.g. Beethoven, Elisabeth of Austria). ...

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Viktor Ullmann (b 1 January 1898 in Teschen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now divided between Cieszyn in Poland and Cesky Tesin in the Czech Republic; d 18 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was an Austrian (or Czech) composer, conductor and pianist. Viktor Ullmann - Biography. Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Teschen, the modern Cieszyn or Cesky Tesin. Both his parents were from families of Jewish descent, but had converted to Roman Catholicism before Viktor's birth. His fathe ...

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Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a highly personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Alban Berg - Life and work. Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg. His family lived quite comfortably until the death of his father in 1900. He was more ...

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A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. The main characteristics of the classical symphony, as it existed by the end of the 18th century in the German-speaking world were: 4 movements, of which the first would usually be a fast movement in sonata form, the second a slow movement, the third either a minuet and trio or a ternary dance-like (scherzo) movement in "simple triple" metre, finishing with a fourth, fast movement in rondo and/or sonata form. Instrumental, to be played by an orchestra of the relativ ...

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Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Teschen, the modern Cieszyn or Cesky Tesin. Both his parents were from families of Jewish descent, but had converted to Roman Catholicism before Viktor's birth. His father, Maximilian, was able as an assimilated Jew to pursue the career of a professional officer in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; in World War I he was promoted to colonel and ennobled. From 1909 Viktor attended a grammar school (Gymnasium) in Vienna. His musical talents and inclinations soon gave him access to Arnold Schönberg and his circle of pupils. As soon as he had finished ...

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Arnold Schoenberg - Works and ideas. To understand why Schoenberg composed the music that he did, it is useful to begin with his own statement: "Had times been 'normal' (before and after 1914) then the music of our time would have been very different." Schoenberg, as a Jewish intellectual, was passionately committed to the concept of unshaken adherence to an "Idea" (such as the concept of an inexpressible God) and the pursuance of Truth. He saw the development of music accelerating through the works of Wag ...

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Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, a minor city official, died six months after Richard's birth, and in August 1814 his mother married the actor Ludwig Geyer. Geyer, who is rumored to have actually been the boy's father, died when Richard was six, leaving him to be brought up by his mother. In 1822, at age 11, Richard was enrolled in the Dresden Kreuz School where he received some small amount of piano instruction from his Latin teacher, but could not manage a proper scale and mostly ...

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In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example, ethnic Jews formed an enormous proportion of the literary and artistic life of Vienna, Austria at the end of the 19th century, or of New York City 50 years later (and Los Angeles in the mid-late 20th century), and for the most part these were not particularly religious people. In general, however, Jewish artistic culture in various periods reflected the culture in which they lived ...

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Frederick II commissioned the original building on the site and construction work began in July 1741 with what was designed to be the first part of a "Forum Fredericianum". Although not entirely completed, the Court Opera (Hofoper) was inaugurated with a performance of Carl Heinrich Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare on December 7, 1742. This event marked the beginning of the successful, 250 year old cooperation between the Staatsoper and the Staatskapelle Berlin, the state orch ...

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After growing up in a religious Jewish family, and composing a series of works before he was 20 (A song cycle Ofrahs Lieder, a String Quartet and a Suite for orchestra), he studied music composition with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin and wrote his first symphony. Although he had some success with his first mature non-stage works which were influenced by Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky (such as the String Quartet op.8 or the Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op.12), Weill tended more and more to vocal music and ...

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String quartet - Born before 1800. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700–1775): wrote several quartets though as with many early works for the medium some of these could be played equally by a small string orchestra. Christian Cannabich (1731–1798): six string quartets opus 5 (about 1780). Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): wrote sixty-eight string quartets (some of which he called Divertimenti), the last incomplete, plus Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (See also:

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In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example, ethnic Jews formed an enormous proportion of the literary and artistic life of Vienna, Austria at the end of the 19th century, or of New York City 50 years later (and Los Angeles in the mid-late 20th century), and for the most part these were not particularly religious people. In general, however, Jewish artist ...

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Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, Friedrich Wagner, who was a minor city official, died six months after Richard's birth. In August 1814 his mother, Johanne Patz, married the actor, Ludwig Geyer. Geyer, who is rumored to have actually been the boy's father, died when Richard was six, leaving him to be brought up by his mother. In 1822, at age 11, Richard was enrolled in the Dresden Kreuz School where he received some small amount of piano instruction from his Latin teacher, but could not manage a proper scale and mostly ...

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Arnold Schoenberg - Works and ideas. To understand why Schoenberg composed the music that he did, it is useful to begin with his own statement: "Had times been 'normal' (before and after 1914) then the music of our time would have been very different." Schoenberg, as a Jewish intellectual, was passionately committed to the concept of unshaken adherence to an "Idea" (such as the concept of an inexpressible God) and the pursuance of Truth. He saw the development of music accelerating through the works of Wag ...

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Main Article: list of Austrian scientists List of Austrians - Economists. Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics Friedrich von Wieser, economist of the Austrian School Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974 Oskar Morgenstern, ...

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Robert Fuchs - Orchestral. Symphonies Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.37 Symphony No.2 in E♭major, Op.45 Symphony No.3 in E major, Op.79 Serenades Serenade for string orchestra No.1 in D major, Op.9 Serenade for string orchestra No.2 in C major, Op.14 Serenade for string orchestra No.3 in E minor, Op.21 Serenade for string orchestra and 2 horns in G minor, Op.51 Serenade for small orchestra in D major, Op. ...

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According to Berg's friend and Schoenberg pupil Erwin Stein, "The work (Ist and VIth part, the main part of the IIIrd and the middle section of the Vth) has been mostly written strictly in accordance with Schoenberg's technique of the 'Composition with 12 inwardly related tones.' A set of 12 different tones gives the rough material of the composition, and the portions which have been treated more freely still adhere more or less to the technique." According to Rene Leibowitz (1947) it is "entirely written in the twelve-tone technique, ...

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