Alexander Zemlinsky
String Quartet no. 3 op. 19
The string quartets by Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky number among the most important contributions to the genre in the first half of the twentieth century. The Third String Quartet op. 19, composed in 1924, shows the mature master at the height of his creativity. The difference to the highly expressionistic Second String Quartet, written ten years earlier, could hardly be greater. With its four-movement form, an often linear style of writing and the ironic detachment of its tone, Zemlinsky’s op. 19 takes up the then current neoclassical tendencies of the 1920s. For this Henle Urtext edition, it was possible to consult the autograph score, the engraver’s copy proofread by the composer and the first edition, so that the edition is based on an optimal source foundation. The editorial work was generously supported by the Alexander Zemlinsky Fund, Vienna.
About the Composer
Alexander Zemlinsky
One of the most important conductors and composers of opera in the first third of the twentieth century, who attained the recognition he deserved only in the 1970s.
| 1871 | Born in Vienna on October 14. Piano instruction beginning at age 4. |
| 1884–92 | Education at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Friends of Music) in Vienna. Early chamber music in the style of Brahms. |
| 1895/96 | Founder and director of the amateur orchestra “Polyhymnia,” where he meets Schönberg; beginning of their friendship, though he does not pursue the path to atonality and later criticizes Schönberg’s twelve-tone technique. |
| 1900–03 | Principal conductor at the Carltheater in Vienna. |
| from 1903 | Instructor at the Schwarzwald school, where he teaches Berg, Horwitz, Jalowetz, E. Stein, and Webern. |
| 1904–06 | Composition of the opera “Der Traumgörge” (“Görge the Dreamer”). |
| 1904–11 | Music director of the Vienna Volksoper. |
| 1907 | Conductor at the Vienna Court Opera. |
| 1910 | Premiere in Vienna of his opera “Kleider machen Leute” (“Clothes Make the Man”). |
| 1911–27 | Kapellmeister at the German Theater in Prague. Engaged as instructor at the German Academy for Music and Fine Arts, as rector after 1920. Composition of the String Quartet No. 2; the Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (1922/23); the “Six Maeterlinck Songs,” Op. 13 (1910/1913); and the Wilde operas “Eine florentinische Tragödie” (“A Florentine Tragedy,” premiere 1917) and “Der Zwerg” (“The Dwarf,” premiere 1922). |
| 1927–30 | First Kapellmeister at the Berlin Kroll Opera under Klemperer. Engaged as instructor at the Academy of Arts (choral class). |
| 1933 | Premiere in Zurich of the opera “Der Kreidekreis” (“The Chalk Circle”). Return to Vienna because of the Nazi regime. |
| 1934 | Songs, Op. 22, on poems by Morgenstern and Goethe. Political circumstances prevent his engagements; contracts previously signed are nullified on account of his Jewish heritage. |
| 1935–38 | Composition of the opera “Der König Kandaules” (“King Kandaules”), which remained unfinished (premiere in 1996, completed by A. Beaumont). |
| 1938 | Emigration to the United States. |
| 1942 | Death in New York on March 15. |
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