CAPRICCIO

Hans Winterberg grew up in Prague where he was one of a whole cadre of composers in the new Czech musical tradition. He is one of the few Jewish composers who survived the terror of World War II. His...

Yellow Stars DVD

With great likelihood these twelve duos for violin and cello composed in 1734 are the earliest works with this instrumentation in which the violin and cello parts enjoy equal rights. The fact that...

When the German troops occupied Austria in 1938, Alexander Zemlinsky fled with his wife Louise via Prague to New York, with the short score of Canduales in his luggage. Zemlinsky attached great hopes...

The old Chinese drama of courtroom and customs was usable only as raw material. In it's original version it is a fairly dull, wooden affair, handled extremely clumsily from the dramatic point of view...

Zemlinsky, Korngold and Bloch also shared the fate of so many other important musical voices of the early twentieth century when their music was banned, and their lives and careers upended, by the...

By the 1890's Zemlinsky had already acquired a reputation as a promising young composer and pianist. In October 1897 Gustav Mahler had become director of the Vienna Hofoper and was determined to do...

Just heard your wonderful Sinfonietta: hope it is the beginning of your American success, wrote Arnold Sch?nberg to Zemlinsky. But Zemlinsky suffered a stroke and died some days later on, lonely in...

He was too modern for the conservatives, and he did not manage to catch up with the 'New Music', despite his close personal relationship to Sch?nberg - This brief characterization of Zemlinsky's...

When Zemlinsky died in 1942, there was no telling if or when posthumous recognition of his work would take place. Typical though his reception was for the 20th century - pockmarked by two world wars...

In the field of entertainment music, Ziehrer's name was soon a quality brand in Vienna, especially as Carl Haslinger, Johann Strauss Jr.'s publisher, provided him with valuable assistance. Unlike...

Ziesak / Deutsches Sym Orch Of Berlin / Creed Mozart Opera Arias CD1. Act IV: Recitativo: Giunse Al Fin Il Momento - Al Desio, Di Chi T'adora 2. Act II: Aria: Un Moto Di Gioia Mi Sento 3. Cosi Fan...