Alexander von Zemlinsky - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky
Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conduc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Von Zemlinsky - List Of Selected Works
Alexander von Zemlinsky - Orchestral Works. Symphony (No. 1) for orchestra (1891, fragment) Symphony No.1 (No. 2) for orchestra (1892/...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. cit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Austrians: Encyclopedia - List Of Austrians
The following list is an election of famous Austrians. For full lists of all famous Austrians please view the sublists. Note: This list i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viktor Ullmann: Encyclopedia - Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann (b 1 January 1898 in Teschen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now divided between Cieszyn in Poland and Cesky Tesin in the Czech ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alban Berg: Encyclopedia - Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese Schoo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia - Symphony
A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. The main characteristics of the classica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viktor Ullmann: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Music
Arnold Schoenberg - Works and ideas. To understand why Schoenberg composed the music that he did, it is useful to begin with his own st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Biography
Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, a minor city official, died six ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Literary And Artistic Culture
In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berlin State Opera: Encyclopedia Ii - Berlin State Opera - Early Years
Frederick II commissioned the original building on the site and construction work began in July 1741 with what was designed to be the fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Weill: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Weill - Life And Work
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 Qua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Quartet: Encyclopedia Ii - String Quartet - List Of String Quartet Composers
String quartet - Born before 1800. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700–1775): wrote several quartets though as with many early wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Literary And Artistic Culture
In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Biography
Richard Wagner - Early life. Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His father, Friedrich Wagner, who was a mino...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Music
Arnold Schoenberg - Works and ideas. To understand why Schoenberg composed the music that he did, it is useful to begin with his own st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Austrians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Austrians - Science
Main Article: list of Austrian scientists List of Austrians - Economists. Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics Fri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Fuchs: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Fuchs - List Of Fuchs' Compositions
Robert Fuchs - Orchestral. Symphonies Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.37 Symphony No.2 in Eâ™­major, Op.45 Symphony No.3 in E major, Op....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyric Suite Berg: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyric Suite Berg - Composition And Analysis
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 sect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Austrian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Austrian Jews - Historical Figures
List of Austrian Jews - Politicians. Viktor Adler, Austrian Socialist leader Otto Bauer, Austrian Socialist leader Rudolf Hilferding, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gustav Mahler: Encyclopedia Ii - Gustav Mahler - Legacy
Critics are no longer to be found who will insist that Mahler's popularity is a fad or a craze that will shortly pass; but while his plac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia Ii - Symphony - History Of The Form
Symphony - The 18th century symphony. The form that we now recognise as the symphony took shape in the early 18th century. It is common...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alban Berg: Encyclopedia Ii - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Biography
Arnold Schönberg was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Leopoldstadt district (in earlier times a Jewish ghetto) in Vienna [1]. A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Extramusical Interests
Schoenberg was also a painter of considerable individuality, whose pictures were considered good enough to exhibit alongside those of Fra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berlin State Opera: Encyclopedia Ii - Berlin State Opera - Postwar Years
The second rebuilding one took a long time. From 1945, the opera company played in the former Admiralspalast (today's Metropoltheater). F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Austrian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Austrian Jews - Academic Figures
List of Austrian Jews - Scientists. Hermann Bondi, cosmologist Erwin Chargaff, chemist Carl Djerassi, chemist: oral contraceptive pill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Wagner's Influence And Legacy
Wagner's contributions to art and culture are undeniable and monumental. In his lifetime, and for some years after, Wagner inspired fanat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Austrian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Austrian Jews - Cultural Figures
List of Austrian Jews - Film and stage. Leon Askin, actor John Banner, actor Theodore Bikel, actor Elisabeth Bergner, stage actress Ru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Jewish Professions
Some professions have traditionally been considered particularly "Jewish," partially as a result of historical circumstances. These inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Origins Of Secular Jewish Culture
For at least 2,000 years, there has not been a unity of Jewish culture. Jews were always geographically dispersed, so that by the 19th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyric Suite Berg: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyric Suite Berg - Tone Rows
Lyric Suite Berg - Movement I. according to George Perle, pitch classes. He also depicts it in the following way: Lyric Suite Berg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berlin State Opera: Encyclopedia Ii - Berlin State Opera - 20th Century
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Berlin opera attracted many illustrious conductors. including F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gustav Mahler: Encyclopedia Ii - Gustav Mahler - Music
Mahler was the last in a line of Viennese symphonists extending from the First Viennese School of Joseph Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Fra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gustav Mahler: Encyclopedia Ii - Gustav Mahler - Works
Gustav Mahler - Symphonies. Symphony No. 1 in D major (1884–1888; rev. 1893–1896; 2nd rev. 1906). Note: This was first called "Sy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Anti-semitism And Nazi Appropriation
During the 20th century, the public perception of Wagner increasingly centered on his anti-semitism, due in large part to an event that o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gustav Mahler: Encyclopedia Ii - Gustav Mahler - Biography
Gustav Mahler was born into a Jewish family in Kalischt, Bohemia. His parents soon moved to Iglau, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Extramusical Interests
Schoenberg was also a painter of considerable individuality, whose pictures were considered good enough to exhibit alongside those of Fra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia Ii - Symphony - The Word Symphony
The word symphony is derived from the Greek syn (together) and phone (sounding), by way of the Latin symphonia. The term was used by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alban Berg: Encyclopedia Ii - Alban Berg - Bibliography
Alban Berg - Analytical writings. Adorno, Theodor W. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. Trans. Juliane Brand and Christopher Hai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arnold Schoenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Arnold Schoenberg - Biography
Arnold Schoenberg was largely self-taught, taking lessons only with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, who was to become his first bro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurt Weill: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurt Weill - List Of Selected Works
Kurt Weill - 1920-1927. 1920 – Sonata for Cello and Piano 1921 – Symphony No. 1 for orchestra 1923 – String Quartet op. 8 1923 â...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Jewish Professions
Some professions have traditionally been considered particularly "Jewish," partially as a result of historical circumstances. These inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Works
Richard Wagner - Operas. Wagner's operas are his primary artistic legacy. These can be divided chronologically into three periods. Wagn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - How Secular Jewish Culture Came To Be
Medieval Jewish communities in Eastern Europe developed distinct cultural traits over the centuries, but beginning with the Enlightenment...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viktor Ullmann: Encyclopedia Ii - Viktor Ullmann - List Of The Prague And Theresienstadt Works
In the middle of 1942, shortly before his deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp, Ullmann drew up a comprehensive list of his c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Quartet: Encyclopedia Ii - String Quartet - History
The form first came to be used after the middle of the 18th century. Joseph Haydn's first works for string quartet have five movements an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Quartet: Encyclopedia Ii - String Quartet - Background
Although any combination of four string instruments can literally be called a "string quartet", in practice the term refers to a group co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Von Zemlinsky - Work
Zemlinsky's best known work is probably the Lyric Symphony (1923), a seven movement work for orchestra, soprano and baritone soloists on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Von Zemlinsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Von Zemlinsky - Alma Mahler And In His Later Career
In 1900, Zemlinsky met Alma Schindler (later Alma Mahler) and fell in love with her. He helped her to work on some of the songs she was w...   » Read the article