Franz Schreker, 1878-1934: A Cultural Biography

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CUP Archive, 18 mars 1993 - 433 pages
Franz Schreker was the most frequently performed opera composer of his generation. His controversial works dominated the central European repertory in the years after the First World War and exercised a major influence on such younger contemporaries as Alban Berg, Kurt Weill, and Ernst Krenek. Forced into retirement by Hitler's racial decrees in 1933, the composer, his music banned, died a broken man. Thereafter Schreker became a forgotten chapter in the history of new music. Schreker's music is only now beginning to enjoy a revival. This first major biography not only introduces the reader to this important repertory, but sets the composer's life and works in the context of his turbulent times. Franz Schreker is a dramatic narrative of an artist poised between the intoxicating late Romanticism of fin-de-siecle Vienna and the sober "New Objectivity" of Weimar Berlin, between a precipitous rise to fame and an equally sudden fall from favor in which aesthetic fashion and political intrigue played their parts. Above all, the Schreker phenomenon can provide a key to understanding the evolution of musical thought during the problematic years before and after the First World War.
 

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Early years
8
so ganz etwas Neus
34
an avant garde comes of age
54
Paul Bekker and the Schreker question
79
The call to Berlin
112
Years of success 19201923
132
A clash of generations
155
a work at the crossroads
176
Years of crisis 19241928
196
The spirit of the times
226
the search for community
256
Exiles in a new age
283
Notes
326
Works list
378
Index
410
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