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Discordant Melody Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School
Lorraine Gorrell
Book Code: GM2366
ISBN: 0-313-32366-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32366-9
328 pages, figures, photo
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2002
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Series Number: 64
Reviews:
  • Gorell is here at her literary finest in detailing Viennese life and personal relationships among composers vital to the development of modern music. Her thoroughly researched and vividly portrayed account of the devastating effect of the Nazi regime on Austrian musical life in general, and on Jewish musicians in particular is powerful....Highly recommended. Music students, scholars, and performers interested in compositional trends; upper-division undergraduates and above.
    —Choice     May 2003
  • Discordant Melody by Lorraine Gorrell is a primer on Zemlinsky, from both the perspective of his songs, and his association with and influence on the composers comprising what has become known as the Second Viennese School....[a] captivating account of Zemlinsky's life and career, his ties to schoenberg and his associates, and his place in music history. It will undoubtedly whet the reader's curiosity to explore the songs of this unsung composer.
    —Journal of Singing     May/June 2004
Description: Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protégé of Brahms and Mahler. Despite this, he was overshadowed by the composers of the second Viennese school, and for many years after his death was remembered merely as the brother-in-law of Schoenberg. But with centenary celebrations of Zemlinsky's birth, scholars began a careful examination of his works and realized they had discovered a forgotten master. Zemlinsky's wonderful melodic gift was manifested in operas, choral works, chamber music, and symphonic pieces, but was realized most fully in his more than one hundred songs. In this important new study--the first such work in English--Lorraine Gorrell focuses on these songs, revealing the ways in which they represented a bridge between the 19th-century romantic lied and the 20th-century avant-garde. Of interest to scholars studying both the German art song and the development of the second Viennese school, Gorrell's work uses Zemlinsky's songs as a lens through which to examine an important, highly influential musical figure.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Fin de siécle Vienna
  • Getting Started
  • The Real World
  • Prague
  • Berlin
  • The Gates of Hell Had Opened
  • Flight
  • Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Schoenberg's Circle
  • Zemlinsky and the Eternal Feminine, Alma Schindler
  • Poetry and Song
  • The Songs
  • Apprenticeship: Early Unpublished Songs
  • A New Path: Unpublished Songs
  • Maturity
  • Unpublished Songs of 1916
  • Symphonic Songs
  • Two Songs
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Song Index: Listing by Title
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 2002023251
LCC Class: ML410
Dewey Class: 782
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