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Discordant Melody
Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School
Lorraine Gorrell
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Discordant Melody

Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School

Lorraine Gorrell Lorraine Gorrell

September 2002

Praeger

Series: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance

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Reveals the significance of the songs of rediscovered composer Alexander Zemlinsky and presents an analysis of them in a cultural, historical, and musicological context.

Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protégé of Brahms and Mahler. Despite this, he was overshadowed by the composers of the second Viennese school, and for many years after his death was remembered merely as the brother-in-law of Schoenberg. But with centenary celebrations of Zemlinsky's birth, scholars began a careful examination of his works and realized they had discovered a forgotten master. Zemlinsky's wonderful melodic gift was manifested in operas, choral works, chamber music, and symphonic pieces, but was realized most fully in his more than one hundred songs.

In this important new study—the first such work in English—Lorraine Gorrell focuses on these songs, revealing the ways in which they represented a bridge between the 19th-century romantic lied and the 20th-century avant-garde. Of interest to scholars studying both the German art song and the development of the second Viennese school, Gorrell's work uses Zemlinsky's songs as a lens through which to examine an important, highly influential musical figure.
Preface
Introduction
Fin de siécle Vienna
Getting Started
The Real World
Prague
Berlin
The Gates of Hell Had Opened
Flight
Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Schoenberg's Circle
Zemlinsky and the Eternal Feminine, Alma Schindler
Poetry and Song
The Songs
Apprenticeship: Early Unpublished Songs
A New Path: Unpublished Songs
Maturity
Unpublished Songs of 1916
Symphonic Songs
Two Songs
Appendix
Bibliography
Song Index: Listing by Title
Subject Index
Reviews
Gorell is here at her literary finest in detailing Viennese life and personal relationships among composers vital to the development of modern music. Her thoroughly researched and vividly portrayed account of the devastating effect of the Nazi regime on Austrian musical life in general, and on Jewish musicians in particular is powerful....Highly recommended. Music students, scholars, and performers interested in compositional trends; upper-division undergraduates and above.—Choice





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