Zemlinsky

American  

[zem-lin-skee] / zɛmˈlɪn ski /

noun

1. Alexander von, 1871–1942, Austrian composer and conductor.

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Zemlinsky British  

/ zɛmˈlɪnskɪ /

noun

1. Alexander. 1871–1942, Austrian composer, living in the US from 1938. His works include the operas Es war einmal (1900) and Eine florentische Tragödie (1917) and the Lyric Symphony (1923)

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Example Sentences

We’ve now heard a number of obscure operas and concert works by the likes of Alexander Zemlinsky, Erwin Schulhoff, Walter Braunfels and Viktor Ullmann.

From Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Opera brought back, after 15 years, one of Conlon’s early successes from his “Recovered Voices” initiative on Saturday night, Zemlinsky’s “The Dwarf.”

From Los Angeles Times

There may not be any sense of the blues in the Austrian Zemlinsky, who fled the Nazis, arriving in New York in 1938.

From Los Angeles Times

As for Conlon, he found Still’s groove and exulted in everything flowery about Zemlinsky.

From Los Angeles Times

Concerts proved as satisfying as any staged production during Aix’s opening week: Gerstein and members of the Berlin Philharmonic performing a chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, for example, or his delightful mounting of a rarely seen Zemlinsky pantomime, “Ein Lichtstrahl.”

From New York Times