Redeeming Schreker – Flammen and Erlösungsoper
In the first of a series on final year projects by this year’s graduates, Harley Mitford describes his dissertation on Schreker’s early opera:
Franz Schreker (right) with close friend Arnold Schoenberg (centre) and Alexander von Zemlinsky (left).
While I was reading around the subject of German opera after Wagner, I came across the little-known Austrian composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934).
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