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Zemlinsky

[ zem-lin-skee ]

noun

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


Zemlinsky

/ zɛmˈlɪnskɪ /

noun

  1. ZemlinskyAlexander18711942MAustrianMUSIC: composer 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.

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.”

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

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

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.”

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