!!!Between the Wars !!Franz Schmidt: ''The Book with 7 seals'' [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Franz_Schmidt_Das_Buch_mit_7_Siegeln/130106a.jpg' alt='Franz Schmidt' height='250' caption='Franz Schmidt' width='176'}] The appreciation of the works of Franz Schmidt (1874 Bratislava/Slovakia - 1939 Perchtoldsdorf/Lower Austria) was adversely affected by his participation in an unfinished composition that was ordered by the Nazis. Schmidt worked as a musician with Mahler, was a teacher, rector and adversary of the Avantgarde. Nevertheless stylistic quotes in his ''Buch mit 7 Siegeln'' (Book with 7 Seals)(1937) show that he was open to contemporary music and could write in a modern style. His use of trombones to illustrate the Last Judgement (Example) shows his individual approach to non-musical contents. (M. Saary) !Sound Clip [{Audio src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Franz_Schmidt_Das_Buch_mit_7_Siegeln/130106am.mp3' caption='Franz Schmidt: The Book with 7 seals\\© 1959/1995 Sony Classical SM2K 68 442, Interpreten: Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wiener Philharmoniker, Dimitri Mitropulos (Leitung)'}] [{Metadata Suchbegriff='' Kontrolle='Nein'}] %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Franz_Schmidt_Das_Buch_mit_7_Siegeln|class='wikipage austrian'] %%