Zemlinsky Studies (Music + Performing Arts) - Softcover

A varied and fascinating collection of essays from international scholars and musicians on Alexander von Zemlinsky, the important early 20th-century Australian composer and conductor,  reappraisal of his compositions. A look at Zwmlinsky’s entire career, topics of discussion include his relation to his contemporaries and to his place in the Austro-German musical tradition, the difficulties found in editing his works, and the subtle balance between 19th-century influences and expressionism found in his early Fantasies. At once scholarly and completely accessible to the general reader, this biographical work provides new insights into the life and works of this important classical composer.