Name Franz Schreker | Role Composer | |
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Died March 21, 1934, Berlin, Germany Education University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna Libretti Der ferne Klang, Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel. Sehr getragen Compositions Der ferne Klang, Der ferne Klang, Die Gezeichneten, Die Gezeichneten, Der Schatzgraber, Der Schatzgraber, Irrelohe, Irrelohe, Flammen, Flammen, Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Schon' Abend (Elis - Schreiber - Schultheiss - Els - Vogt - Landsknecht - Wirt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Schon' Abend (Elis - Schreiber - Schultheiss - Els - Vogt - Landsknecht - Wirt), Romantic Suite, Romantic Suite, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VII In blauen Sandalen uber das korn, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VII In blauen Sandalen uber das korn, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Ich bin kein Schemen (Els - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Ich bin kein Schemen (Els - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Allegro con spirito, Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Allegro con spirito, Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Wie ich lebte - so lasst mich sterben (Elis - Vogt - Chor - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Wie ich lebte - so lasst mich sterben (Elis - Vogt - Chor - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Tibi soli peccavi (Chor - Vogt - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Tibi soli peccavi (Chor - Vogt - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Am Ilsenstein in uralter Zeit (Elis - Konig - Kanzler), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Am Ilsenstein in uralter Zeit (Elis - Konig - Kanzler), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Genug! Macht ein Ende! (Vogt - Chor - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Genug! Macht ein Ende! (Vogt - Chor - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Els! Els! (Albi - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Els! Els! (Albi - Els), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VI Mit der Wind im Fruhling, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VI Mit der Wind im Fruhling, Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Dank - Dank - Herr Konig (Narr - Elis - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Dank - Dank - Herr Konig (Narr - Elis - Els), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: V Die Tanze der Zwerges, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: V Die Tanze der Zwerges, Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Halt - o Konig (Vogt - Konig), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Halt - o Konig (Vogt - Konig), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: III Die Marionetten, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: III Die Marionetten, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Geheimnisvoll kundet die Nacht sich an (Elis - Chor), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Geheimnisvoll kundet die Nacht sich an (Elis - Chor), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Wenn Majestat geruh'n zu erlauben (Kanzler - Konig - Chor - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Wenn Majestat geruh'n zu erlauben (Kanzler - Konig - Chor - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Im fortwahrender Steigerung, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Im fortwahrender Steigerung, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Du sollst mich nie fragen (Els - Elis - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Du sollst mich nie fragen (Els - Elis - Soli), Kleine Suite fur Orchester, Kleine Suite fur Orchester, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III In sanfter ruhiger bewegung - Mehr und mehr gesteigert, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III In sanfter ruhiger bewegung - Mehr und mehr gesteigert, Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Ah! Hort auf! (Els - Konig - Chor), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Ah! Hort auf! (Els - Konig - Chor), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: I Reigen, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: I Reigen, Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Kommt - kommt! (Albi - Schultheiss - Vogt - Schreiber - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Kommt - kommt! (Albi - Schultheiss - Vogt - Schreiber - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Ha ha! Herr Konig (Narr - Kanzler - Magister - Konig), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Ha ha! Herr Konig (Narr - Kanzler - Magister - Konig), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: IX Die Rose der Infatin, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: IX Die Rose der Infatin, Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Sehr getragen, Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Sehr getragen, Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Das werdet Ihr nicht tun! (Els - Vogt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Das werdet Ihr nicht tun! (Els - Vogt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I So hort meinen Sang (Elis - Vogt - Schreiber - Els - Wirt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I So hort meinen Sang (Elis - Vogt - Schreiber - Els - Wirt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Klein war ich noch (Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Klein war ich noch (Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Nun - Narr - du hast es gelost! (Konig - Chor - Narr - Magister - Elis - Kanzler - Graf - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Nun - Narr - du hast es gelost! (Konig - Chor - Narr - Magister - Elis - Kanzler - Graf - Soli), Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VIII Im roten Gewand im herbst, Der Geburtstag der Infantin: VIII Im roten Gewand im herbst, Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Els! - Wer ist da? (Elis - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Els! - Wer ist da? (Elis - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Mein Kind - Els? (Wirt - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Mein Kind - Els? (Wirt - Els), Romantic Suite: III Intermezzo In sanfter Bewegung, Romantic Suite: III Intermezzo In sanfter Bewegung, Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Du legst dein Kopfchen jetzt sanft zur Seit' (Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Du legst dein Kopfchen jetzt sanft zur Seit' (Elis), Kamersymfonie, Kamersymfonie, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Els! - Elis endlich (Elis - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Els! - Elis endlich (Elis - Els), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Els! Els! (Wirt - Elis - Els - Vogt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Els! Els! (Wirt - Elis - Els - Vogt), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Lasst ab von dem (Herold - Vogt - Elis - Els - Chor - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt II Lasst ab von dem (Herold - Vogt - Elis - Els - Chor - Soli), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Lass mich! (Els - Junker), Der Schatzgraber: Akt I Lass mich! (Els - Junker), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Dank - dass Ihr kamt! (Narr - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Dank - dass Ihr kamt! (Narr - Elis), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Komm - komm - mein Brautchen (Narr), Der Schatzgraber: Akt IV Komm - komm - mein Brautchen (Narr), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Amen - so sei's! (Narr), Der Schatzgraber: Nachspiel Amen - so sei's! (Narr), Prelude to "Memnon", Prelude to "Memnon", Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Rubato - Ziemlich langsam, Der Schatzgraber: Akt III Rubato - Ziemlich langsam Similar People Alexander von Zemlinsky, Alban Berg, Lothar Zagrosek, Arnold Schoenberg, Erwin Schulhoff | ||
Franz schreker irrelohe vorspiel
Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878, Monaco – 21 March 1934, Berlin) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.
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- Franz schreker irrelohe vorspiel
- Franz schreker chamber symphony 1916
- Formative years
- Career launch
- Success in opera
- End of career
- Reputation today
- Chamber music
- References
Franz schreker chamber symphony 1916
Formative years
Schreker was born in Monaco, the eldest son of the Bohemian Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker, and his wife, Eleonore von Clossmann, who was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of his father, the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory. Starting with violin studies, with Sigismund Bachrich and Arnold Rosé, he moved into the composition class of Robert Fuchs, graduating as a composer in 1900. His first success was with the Intermezzo for strings, Op. 8, which won an important prize sponsored by the Neue musikalische Presse in 1901. After graduating from the conservatory he spent several years taking various bread-and-butter jobs. His first opera, Flammen, was completed in 1902 but failed to receive a staged production.
Career launch
Schreker had begun conducting in 1895, when he had founded the Verein der Musikfreunde Döbling. In 1907 he formed the Vienna Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920: among its many premières were Zemlinsky's Psalm XXIII and Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Gurre-Lieder.
His "pantomime", Der Geburtstag der Infantin, commissioned by the dancer Grete Wiesenthal and her sister Elsa for the opening of the 1908 Kunstschau, first called attention to his development as a composer. Such was the success of the venture that Schreker composed several more dance-related works for the two sisters including Der Wind, Valse lente and Ein Tanzspiel (Rokoko).
Success in opera
November 1909 saw the stormy premiere of the complex orchestral interlude (entitled Nachtstück) from Der ferne Klang, the opera he had been working on since 1903. In 1912, the first performance of the complete opera in Frankfurt consolidated his fame. In the same year, director Wihelm Bopp offered Schreker a provisional teaching appointment at the Conservatory where Schreker had studied, now the Vienna Music Academy. In early 1913 he was appointed full professor.
This breakthrough heralds a decade of great success for the composer. His next opera, Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin, which was given simultaneous premières in Frankfurt and Vienna on 15 March 1913 was less well received (the work was subsequently revised as a one-act 'Mysterium' entitled simply Das Spielwerk in 1915), but the scandal caused by this opera in Vienna only served to make Schreker's name more widely known.
The outbreak of World War I interrupted the composer's success but with the première of his opera Die Gezeichneten, in Frankfurt on 25 April 1918, Schreker moved to the front ranks of contemporary opera composers. The first performance of Der Schatzgräber in Frankfurt on 21 January 1920 was the high point of his career. The Chamber Symphony, composed between the two operas for the faculty of the Vienna Academy in 1916, quickly entered the repertoire and remains Schreker's most frequently performed work today.
In March 1920 he was appointed director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and between 1920 and 1932 he gave extensive musical tuition in a variety of subjects with Berthold Goldschmidt, Alois Hába, Jascha Horenstein, Julius Bürger, Ernst Krenek, Artur Rodziński, Stefan Wolpe, Zdenka Ticharich and Grete von Zieritz numbering among his students.
End of career
Schreker's fame and influence were at their peak during the early years of the Weimar Republic when he was the most performed living opera composer after Richard Strauss. The decline of his artistic fortunes began with the mixed reception given to Irrelohe in Cologne in 1924 under Otto Klemperer and the failure of Der singende Teufel, given in Berlin in 1928 under Erich Kleiber.
Political developments and the spread of anti-Semitism were also contributory factors, both of which heralded the end of Schreker's career. Right-wing demonstrations marred the première of Der Schmied von Gent in Berlin in 1932 and National Socialist pressure forced the cancellation of the scheduled Freiburg première of Christophorus in 1933 (the work was finally performed there in 1978). Finally, in June 1932, Schreker lost his position as Director of the Musikhochschule in Berlin and, the following year, also his post as professor of composition at the Akademie der Künste.
In his lifetime he went from being hailed as the future of German opera to being considered irrelevant as a composer and marginalized as an educator. After suffering from a stroke in December 1933, he died in Berlin on 21 March 1934, two days before his 56th birthday.
Although Schreker was influenced by composers such as Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, his mature style shows a highly individual harmonic language, which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages.
Reputation today
After decades in obscurity, Schreker has begun to enjoy a considerable revival in reputation in the German-speaking world and in the United States. In 2005 the Salzburg Festival mounted an incomplete production of Die Gezeichneten, conducted by Kent Nagano (and filmed), and the Jewish Museum in Vienna presented an exhibition devoted to his life and work. New productions of Der ferne Klang were staged at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Zurich Opera in 2010, as well as in smaller opera houses in Germany. Irrelohe was performed at the Volksoper in Vienna in 2004 and again at the Bonn Opera in November 2010. Earlier that year a Schreker opera was staged in the USA for the first time: Die Gezeichneten at Los Angeles Opera; and months after that came a second: Der ferne Klang during the Bard Summerscape Festival.
Chamber music
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