Life

Schreker was a oldest boy of the Jewish court lensman Ignaz Schrecker & his married woman Eleonore von Clossmann. He grew higher in the period of travels through half of Europe & when his father's demise a personal moved from either Linz to Vienna (1888) where within 1892, with a facilitate of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Conservatory. Starting by having violin studies he moved into a composition class from Robert Fuchs and finally graduated as a composer around 1900. Schreker got begun conducting around 1895, when he experienced founded a Verein 500 Musikfreunde Döbling. Fallowing graduating from either a conservatory he spent many years ingesting various bread-&-butter jobs. Inside 1907 he formed the Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920, and among its numerous premières were Zemlinsky's Psalm XXIII and Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Gurrelieder.

A profits of his pantomime Der Geburtstag der Infantin, accredited by Grete Wiesenthal for the opening of the 1908 Kunstschau, called number 1 attention to his development as a composer. Around 1912, the performance of the opera 500 ferne Klang all-night established his fame & a equivalent season Schreker was appointed as a professor at the Music Academy around Vienna. This breakthrough heralds the decade of smashing profits for the composer. His next opera, Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessinside, which tend co-occurrent premières in Frankfurt and Vienna (15 March 1913) was less well received, however a scandal which this opera induced around Vienna, processed Schreker's title widely known.

A irruption of World War I interrupted for some years a composer's profits however using a première of his opera Die Gezeichneten (Frankfurt, 25 April 1918) Schreker moved to the front ranks of contemporary opera composers. A number one performance of Der Schatzgräber (Frankfurt, 21 January 1920) was the highpoint of his career, & around March that season he was appointed director of the Hochschule für Musik inside Berlin. Between 1920 & 1932 he gave extensive musical tuition in the kind of cases using Alois Hába, Jascha Horenstein, Ernst Krenek, Artur Rodzinski, and Grete von Zieritz being among his students.

Schreker's fame & influence were at their peak when you took a early years of the Weimar Republic. A decline of his artistic fortunes began by having a failure of Five hundred singende Teufel (Berlin, 1928). Political developments & a spread of anti-Semitism were also conducive factors, two of which heralded a prevent of Schreker's career. Best-wing demonstrations marred a première of Der Schmied von Gent (Berlin, 1932), & National Socialist pressure forced the cancellation of the scheduled Freiburg première of Christophorus. Eventually, inside June 1932, Schreker misplaced his position when Director of a Musikhochschule inside Berlin &, a when a consequence month, besides his post as prof of composition at the Akademie 500 Künste. Fallowing suffering from either the stroke in December 1933, he died on March 21, two years prior to his 56th birthday.

Works

Schreker was primarily the composer of works for the stage. Although he has been influenced by the total of more composers like Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, his mature style shows the super single harmonic language, characterized by combination of tonal with chromatic and polytonal passages.

Operas

Flammen (1901/02) Five hundred ferne Klang (1903-1910) Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (1908; 1909-1912) Coney Spielwerk (1915) Die Gezeichneten (1911; 1913-1915) 500 Schatzgräber (1915-1918) Irrelohe (1919-1922) 500 singende Teufel (1924; 1927-1928) Christophorus (1925-1927) Der Schmied von Gent (1929-1932)