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Alexander von Zemlinsky

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Albumblatt (1)
Balladen (2) (1907) (1)
Balladen (4) (1)
Brettl-Lieder (2) (5)
Cello Sonata in A minor (4)
Chamber Symphony (based on String Quartet no.2) (1)
Clarinet Trio in D minor, op.3 (11)
Cymbeline: Incidental Music (1)
Das glaserne Herz (1)
Der Konig Kandaules (highlights) (1)
Der Konig Kandaules (3)
Der Kreidekreis (The Chalk Circle) (highlights) (1)
Der Kreidekreis (The Chalk Circle) (1)
Der Tag wird kuhl (1)
Der Traumgorge (highlights) (1)
Der Traumgorge (2)
Des Madchens Klage (1)
Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) (10)
Die beiden (1)
Ehetanzlied und andere Gesange, op.10 (4)
Ein Lichtstrahl (1)
Ein Stuck aus dem Leben eines Menschen (1)
Eine florentinische Tragodie (A Florentine Tragedy), op.16 (highlights) (1)
Eine florentinische Tragodie (A Florentine Tragedy), op.16 (3)
Es war ein alter Konig (2)
Es war einmal (highlights) (1)
Es war einmal (3)
Fantasien uber Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, op.9 (5)
» no.3
Fruhlingsbegrabnis (1)
Gesange (4), op.8 (1)
Gesange (5), op.7 (6)
Gesange (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13 (arr. Christopher Austin) (1)
Gesange (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13 (4)
Gesange (8), op.5 (3)
Harmonie des Abends (1)
Herbsten (1)
Herr Bombardil (1)
Hortest du den nicht hinein (1)
Humoreske (Rondo): Schulstuck fur Blaserquintett (6)
In der Sonnengasse (1)
Landliche Tanze, op.1 (1)
Liebe und Fruhling (1)
Lied der Baumwollpacker (Song of the Cotton Packers) (1)
Lieder (2) auf Texte von Heinrich Heine (2)
Lieder (3) (c.1890) (1)
Lieder (4) (1903-05) (1)
Lieder (5) (1895-96) (2)
Lieder (5) (1907) (1)
Lieder (5) (2)
Lieder (6), op.22 (1)
Lieder (7) (posthumous songs) (3)
Lieder (12), op.27 (2)
» Elend
» Sommer
Lieder (13), op.2 (7)
Lustspiel-Ouverture (Comedy Overture) (1)
Lyric Symphony, op.18 (8)
Madel, kommst du mit zum Tanz? (1)
Maeterlinck Songs (6) (4)
Maiblumen bluhten uberall (4)
Movements (2) for String Quintet (2)
Noch spur ich ihren Atem auf den Wangen (1)
Nun schwillt der See so bang (1)
Orientalische Sonett (1)
Piano Trio in D minor, op.3 (8)
Pieces (3) for Cello and Piano (2)
Psalm 23, op.14 (arr. Henk Guittart for chamber ensemble) (1)
Psalm 23, op.14 (3)
Psalm 83 (1)
Sarema: Overture (1)
Satze (2) (1)
Selige Stunde (1)
Serenade in A major (4)
Sinfonietta, op.23 (5)
Skizze (1)
Songs (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13 (arr. E Stein & A Tarkmann) (3)
Songs (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.13 (3)
Songs (7) von Nacht und Traum (1)
String Quartet in E minor (2)
String Quartet no.1 in A major, op.4 (6)
String Quartet no.2, op.15 (7)
String Quartet no.3, op.19 (5)
String Quartet no.4 (Suite), op.25 (4)
Suite in A major (2)
» Mvt 4
Susse, susse Sommernacht (2)
Symphonische Gesange, op.20 (4)
Symphony no.1 in D minor (5)
Symphony no.2 in B flat major (3)
Triumph der Zeit: 3 Balletstucke (ballet pieces) (2)
Und einmal gehst du (1)
Und hat der Tag all seine Qual (1)
Waldgesprach 'Es ist schon spat, es ist schon kalt' (3)
Walzer-Gesange nach toskanischen Volksliedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, op.6 (7)

Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (October 14, 1871, Vienna – March 15, 1942, Larchmont, New York) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.

Zemlinsky's best-known work is the Lyric Symphony (1923), a seven-movement piece for soprano, baritone and orchestra, set to poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (in German translation), which Zemlinsky compared in a letter to his publisher to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (though the first part of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder is also a clear influence). The work in turn influenced Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, which quotes from it and is dedicated to Zemlinsky.

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