The Austrian composer's rarely heard Expressionist 1915 opera, translatable as The Stigmatised, is to be performed as today's Afternoon Concert.
Franz Schreker was one of the small grouping of composers including Alexander Zemlinsky, who just "happened" to be its commissioner, operating aesthetically in a demi-monde somewhere midway between Strauss's Elektra and the Second Viennese School. One might think of Schreker as a sort of Gustav Klimt of the music of his time.
Franz Schreker was one of the small grouping of composers including Alexander Zemlinsky, who just "happened" to be its commissioner, operating aesthetically in a demi-monde somewhere midway between Strauss's Elektra and the Second Viennese School. One might think of Schreker as a sort of Gustav Klimt of the music of his time.