Product Description: Franz Schreker's rarely-seen opera is presented here by the Vienna State Opera Choir and German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, conducted by Kent Nagao. Soloists include Alviano Salvago, Carlotta Nardi, Robert Brubaker, Anne Schwanewilms, Robert Hale et al.
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer who taught at the Prussian Academy in Berlin with Arnold Schoenberg. Schreker died in 1934 of a nervous condition brought on by the Nazi proclaimation that Jews could not work in any civil service position. Schreker is mostly known for his operas, written in a late-romantic idiom highlighting the tonal beauty of the orchestra. Schreker also wrote a ballet based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta” for a Seccesionist exhibition in Vienna, a Chamber Symphony, and a number of lieder.
(Contribution by Wayne Jonas Bealer <103070.1502compuserve.com>.)
Schreker was director at the Berlin Hochschule Fur Musik. He “resigned” from there in 1932 (he was Jewish). He died of a heart attack. There was a lot of that going around during the Nazi Regime. At the time he had just been dismissed from the Prussian Academy of Arts.
(Contribution by Colin Wright <colin.wright530ntlworld.com>.)
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