Franz Schreker, 1818-1934 : a cultural biography / Christopher Hailey.
| Author/creator | Hailey, Christopher |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
| Description | xx, 433 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Music in the twentieth century Music in the twentieth century. ^A275257 |
| Contents | Early years -- Der ferne Klang: "so ganz etwas Neu's" -- Vienna 1913: an avant garde comes of age -- A critical champion: Paul Bekker and the Schreker question -- The call to Berlin -- Years of success (1920-1923) -- A clash of generations -- Irrelohe: a work at the crossroads -- Years of crisis (1924-1928) -- The spirit of the times -- Der Schmied von Gent: the search for community -- Exiles in a new age -- Afterword: a fitful renaissance: Schreker and post-war musical life. |
| Abstract | 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. 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes work list (pages 378-383), bibliographical references (pages 384-409), and index. |
| LCCN | 91040200 |
| ISBN | 0521392551 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.S288 H3 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |