Podcast #19 : ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY - The Opera Composer

Once upon a time, there was a tiny little man in Vienna who composed the grandest operas. What started out as fairy‑tale works of musical theatre ended, alas, in tragic fashion for Alexander Zemlinsky in the New World. In this episode, Joe and Jens track this wildly underrated composer’s operatic career from Vienna via Prague and Berlin to his premature death in New York.

0:20   Introduction
1:16   Late Zemlinsky Revival
3:14   Alma Mahler and The Dwarf
5:12   Once Upon a Time (1900)
9:32   Der Traumgörge (1905/06)
13:11  A Florentine Tragedy (1916)
17:01  The Dwarf (1922)
17:31   The Berlin Era
18:57   The Chalk Circle (1932/33)
22:04  Immigration
23:14  Schoenberg and Zemlinsky
26:25  King Candaules (1936)
28:18  Back to Vienna
29:00  Conclusion

C60019  Once Upon a Time
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C10241-42  Der Traumgörge
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C5325  A Florentine Tragedy
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C60016-2  The Chalk Circle
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C60071  King Candaules
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• Renate Behle — https://www.renatebehle.de/

• Wolfgang Koch

• Josef Protschka

• Eva Johansson — http://www.evajohansson.dk/

• Pamela Coburn — https://www.pamcoburn.com/

• Bertrand de Billy — https://debilly.com/

• Gerd Albrecht — http://www.gerd-albrecht.com/

• Stefan Soltesz — https://www.hilbert.de/en/artists/conductor/stefan-soltesz/

• Radio‑Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt — https://www.orchester-des-wandels.de/en/our-orchestras/musicians-of-the-hr-sinfonieorchester-frankfurt/

• Rundfunk‑Sinfonieorchester Berlin — https://www.rsb-online.de/en/

• ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra — https://rso.orf.at/

• Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg — https://www.die-hamburgische-staatsoper.de/en/people/1929-philharmonisches-staatsorchester-hamburg

Alma Mahler‑Werfel - Gustav Mahler - Arnold Schoenberg - Franz Schreker - Klabund

With:
Jens F. Laurson (Journalist) and Johannes Kernmayer (Producer)

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