Author : Christopher Hailey
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521392556
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (925 download)
Book Synopsis Franz Schreker, 1878-1934 by : Christopher Hailey
Download or read book Franz Schreker, 1878-1934 written by Christopher Hailey and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.