!!!Zemlinsky, Alexander von

b. Vienna, Oct. 14, 1871, 
d. Larchmont (USA), March 16, 1942, composer of the late Romantic 
period; teacher and brother-in-law of A.  Schoenberg. 1899 conductor 
at the Vienna Carltheater, conductor at the Vienna Volksoper from 1906 
to 1911 and at the Vienna Court Opera in 1908; lived and worked in 
Prague from 1911 to 1927; moved to Germany, returned to Vienna in 1933 
and lived there until 1938, emigrated to the USA in 1938.

!Works
10 operas: Sarema, 1897; Es war einmal, 1900; Kleider machen 
Leute, 1910; Die florentin. Tragoedie, 1917; Der Zwerg, 1921; Der 
Kreidekreis, 1933. - Symphonies, chamber and piano music, choral 
music, lieder.

!Literature
O. Kolleritsch (ed.), A. v. Z., 1976; R. 
Stephan, A. v. Z., 1978; E. Rathgeber, A. v. Z., 
1991; E. Rathgeber, Die Rolle des Symbolismus ..., 1994; H. Krones 
(ed.), A. Z, 1995; P. Tancsik, Die Prager Oper heisst Z., 
2000.



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