This fine recording of Zemlinsky’s sumptuous late-Romantic work is another reminder of why the composer is unfairly neglected There have been a number of occasions in the past few decades when it ...

Hear music from Zemlinsky's two one-act operas based on works by Oscar Wilde. The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond. It's been 65 years since the death of Viennese composer Alexander ...

Dating from 1905, Zemlinsky’s three-movement orchestral fantasy Die Seejungfrau has a vexed history. Based on Hans Andersen’s Little Mermaid, it’s a very adult study of erotic yearning that aims to ...

Brahms is the dominant spirit behind four early chamber works from the 1890s by Alexander Zemlinsky. Zemlinsky was criticised, praised and helped by Brahms, and seems to have had elements of the older ...

Alexander Zemlinsky, who composed several of the most subtly entrancing operas of the early twentieth century, embodied the cosmopolitan chaos of the old Austrian Empire. His father came from a ...

Hans Christian Andersen's music has been inspiring composers for the better part of two centuries. Alexander Zemlinsky is one of many in that long line. Before we hear the first and fourth movements ...

Donald Macleod introduces the ugly, beautiful, hyper-expressive musical world of Alexander Zemlinsky and his turbulent early life in pre-war Vienna. Many people famously considered Zemlinsky ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A Florentine Tragedy, Zemlinsky’s one-act opera, oozes private agendas: on one hand he was obsessed with Mahler’s ...

Oscar Wilde’s A Florentine Tragedy was drafted in 1893, but it seems entirely at home in the Vienna of Freud and Kokoschka where Zemlinsky composed his operatic version in 1915-16. The three ...

1 Christina Rose Hall and Aaron Kaburick Join BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Tour The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is proud to announce that German composer Ulrich Kreppein has ...