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ALL ABOUT SCHREKER.
A friend once borrowed a history of opera from the library, only to find that every other page had been marked up by one of those hyper-punctuating annotators who stalk the pages of library books around the world. Whether the topic was Monteverdi, Wagner, or Gilbert and Sullivan, the voice in the margins kept returning to one agonized, enigmatic question: "WHAT ABOUT SCHREKER???" My friend, who understandably knew little of the Austrian opera composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934), began to use that graphite cri de coeur as shorthand for the cult of obscure art, which sees repertories and canons as conspiracies against neglected genius. Any gathering of aesthetes will sooner ...
- Recordings -- Schreker's Die Gezeichneten by Connell, Kruse, Pederson, Muff,...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Luten, C J January 6, 1996 700+ words
...Radio, Zagrosek. London 444442 (3) Franz Schreker's fourth opera, Die Gezeichneten (The Branded, 1918), set in Renaissance...Alviano kills his rival and goes insane. Schreker's score, redolent of Salome's opulence...
- Die Gezeichneten.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil January 1, 2007 700+ words
DIE GEZEICHNETEN Schreker EuroArts 2055298...however, the Jewish Schreker was forced out of his...This production of Die Gezeichneten (The Branded) was...the 16th century, Schreker's brooding, decadent...
- Franz Lehar.(Der Graf von Luxemburg)(Die Gezeichneten)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Holland, John March 1, 2007 700+ words
...CPO, 2006. 777 194-2. $34.98. Franz Schreker. Die Gezeichneten. DVD. Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin...the era can be seen in a lavish production of Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, filmed at the 2005 Salzburg Festival. Written...
- Franz Schreker, 1878-1934: A Cultural Biography.
- Magazine article from: Notes Benser, Caroline Cepin December 1, 1995 700+ words
...well the end of the story. Schreker's death in 1934 at the age...decrees. From 1920, when Schreker became director of Germany...die Prinzessin (1913), Die Gezeichneten (1918), and Der Schatzgraber...1920). With one exception, Schreker wrote his own librettos...
- Schreker, Franz
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Schreker, Franz ( b Monaco, 23...Schoenberg's Erwartung . Schreker's next work, Das Spielwerk...offended. More successful were Die Gezeichneten (1918) and Der Schatzgr...During the 1920s and 1930s Schreker came increasingly under...
- Recordings -- Schreker's Der Ferne Klang by Grigorescu, Pilari and others with...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Komarov, Jane L January 6, 1996 700+ words
...Capriccio 60024-2 Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound, 1912), Schreker's most popular work, tells of Fritz, a young writer and...nuance, mystery and credible emotion, outshines the vocal. Schreker is at home with musical collage, and the effect is especially...
- Recordings -- Schreker's Irrelohe
- Magazine article from: Opera News Zakariasen, Bill March 2, 1996 700+ words
SCHREKER: Irrelohe DeVol, Randova; Pabst, Zednik...recording of an opera that might well be Franz Schreker's masterpiece, Sony continues its flank...Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane, but Schreker takes only about half as long to present...
- Briefwechsel mit Arnold Schonberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg und Franz Schreker.
- Magazine article from: Notes Ringer, Alexander L. December 1, 1996 700+ words
...Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and Franz Schreker, offers a much needed corrective to...relative beginners notwithstanding. Schreker was comparatively well established in...turned in the opposite direction, once Schreker's widely successful operatic works...