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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

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

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

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

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