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Introduction

For a long time it appeared as if Franz Schreker had disappeared from general musical consciousness.

Together with Korngold, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann, the composer who perished in Auschwitz, he belonged to the part of the Western musical scene which during the Nazi period was stigmatised as being degenerate and subsequently destroyed.

Gradually, however, Franz Schreker and his works are gradually returning into the public eye: justifiably so, as there is a great deal of interest to be (re)discovered.

Biography

Schreker's biography was equally moulded by the great successes during his lifetime (he was for a certain time world famous and the only musical dramatist whose operas could easily hold their own ground against those of Richard Strauss) and also the inglorious end to his career precipitated by the social and political situation, causing both the co