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Zemlinsky

American  
[zem-lin-skee] / zɛmˈlɪn ski /

noun

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


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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There are also early songs by Alexander Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler and Erich Korngold, members of the Viennese musical elite circa 1900 and, like Weill, ultimately emigrés to America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

‘Dream With Me’ at the Edye The Sunday Morning Music series continues and includes this intimate program of chamber works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bernstein, Massenet and Zemlinsky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

Ms. Lindsey shows just how nimble her voice can be with this diverse collection of 20th-century songs by Alma Mahler, Weill, Korngold and Zemlinsky, who all fled the Nazis.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017

Set to songs by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky, this is a work choreographed in the emotionally drenched, classic style of modern dance you rarely see outside period revivals.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012

Schoenberg is an autodidact, the lessons in composition from Alexander von Zemlinsky not affecting his future path-breaking propensities.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

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