Zemlinsky 150th Anniversary Festival - Prague October 8-10, 2021

[brendangcarroll]

On October 8-10, the Prague State Opera will mark the 150th anniversary of Alexander Zemlinsky's birth with a series of special concert performances of Zemlinsky's works, including the world premiere of fragments from his incomplete opera MALWA, as well as works by his pupils and members of his circle.

The Prague State Opera is actually the former Deutsche Oper, where, from 1911 until 1927, Zemlinsky was the esteemed music director.

https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/klassik/2109845-Prag-ehrt-oesterreichischen-Komponisten-Alexander-Zemlinsky.html?fbclid=IwAR2Efq2eI9P8fTDXKUgAPUBT8j5XX3xgyT1XOf_rdsyFeF9MJdlltNGKcW0

PREVIEW:

https://www.planethugill.com/2021/06/celebrating-alexander-von-zemlinskys.html?fbclid=IwAR1a-HlO6B1Eionckc5T28wV934uRrkHXoBPgE9a2djvrpegZEpCC5sh-o4

[vesteel]

Complete Programme here: https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/klassik/2109845-Prag-ehrt-oesterreichischen-Komponisten-Alexander-Zemlinsky.html

CONCERT 1:
Johannes Brahms: Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello in A minor, op. 114
Alban Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5
Alexander Zemlinsky: Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello in D minor, op. 3

CONCERT 2:
Alban Berg: Three pieces from the "Lyric Suite"
Alexander Zemlinsky: Six songs after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op. 13 
Arnold Schönberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 for 15 solo instruments, op. 9

CONCERT 3:
Alexander Zemlinsky:  String quartet No. 2, op. 15
Arnold Schönberg: String quartet No. 2, op. 10

CONCERT 4:
Alexander Zemlinsky: String quartet No. 3, op. 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, ,,Dissonance"

CONCERT 5:
Alexander Zemlinsky: Malva, opera fragment, instrumanted by Antony Beaumont
Alexander Zemlinsky: Hochzeitsgesang
Alexander Zemlinsky: Frühlingsglaube and Geheimnis
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, op. 18

[Droosbury]

Intriguing. Was just looking up this in Antony Beaumont's Zemlinsky book (publ 2000) and he says of Z's work on this in 1902, "neither libretto nor sketches have survived". Something must have turned up in the interim, then! Does anyone know anything more?