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Franz Schreker
12+ albums
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Franz Schreker (March 23, 1878 – March 21, 1934) was an Austrian composer and conductor. His oeuvre, consisting mainly of operas, is characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music. Schreker was the oldest son of the Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore von Clossmann, who was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and after his father's death the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Conservatory. Starting with violin studies he moved into the composition class given by Robert Fuchs and finally graduated as a composer in 1900. Schreker had begun conducting in 1895, when he had founded the Verein der Musikfreunde Döbling. After graduating from the conservatory he spent several years taking various bread-and-butter jobs. In 1907 he formed the Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920, and among its many premières were Zemlinsky's Psalm XXIII and Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Gurre-Lieder. The success of his "pantomime", Der Geburtstag der Infantin, commissioned by Grete Wiesenthal for the opening of the 1908 Kunstschau, first called attention to his development as a composer. In 1912, the
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4 Kleine Stücke: I. Timoroso
5,8562Valse Lente
4053Der ferne Klang: Act III Scene 15: Grete! Horst Du den Ton? (Fritz, Grete)
2744Schubert / Orch. Mahler: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto
2575Romantische Suite: III. Intermezzo (In sanfter Bewegung)
2176Der Geburtstag der Infantin: I. Die Infantin im Kreise ihrer Gespielinnen
1967Intermezzo und Scherzo für Streichorchester, Op. 8: II. Intermezzo
1878Intermezzo, Op. 8
14794 Kleine Stücke: II. Violente
13410Der ferne Klang: Act III: Zwischenspiel
129albums
Schreker: Vom ewigen Leben & Phantastische Ouvertüre
Schreker: Der ferne Klang
Der ferne Klang... Orchestral Works & Songs by Franz Schreker
SCHREKER: Die Gezeichneten
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Schreker: Romantische Suite: III. Intermezzo (In sanfter Bewegung)
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Schreker: Valse Lente
Schreker: The Birthday of the Infanta Suite, Prelude to a Drama & Romantic Suite
Schreker: Intermezzo, Op. 8
SCHREKER: Overtures
Schreker: Prelude To Die Gezeichneten / Valse Lente / Ekkehard / Phantastische Ouverture
Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Schreker, F.: 5 Gesange / Ein Tanzpiel / Festwalzer Und Walzerintermezzo / Schwanensang / Fagea