Discordant Melody: Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School

326 Pages·2002·19.29 MB·English

by  Lorraine Gorrell

Discordant Melody
Alexander Zemlinsky. Used by permission of Alexander Zemlinsky Fonds bei der Gesell-
schaft der Musikfreunde in Wien.
Discordant Melody
Alexander Zemlinsky,
His Songs, and the Second
Viennese School
LORRAINE GORRELL
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY
OF MUSIC AND DANCE, NUMBER 64
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut • London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gorrell, Lorraine.
Discordant melody : Alexander Zemlinsky, his songs, and the second Viennese school /
Lorraine Gorrell.
p. cm.—(Contributions to the study of music and dance, ISSN 0193-9041 ; no.
64)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
ISBN 0-313-32366-6 (alk. paper)
1. Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1871-1942. Songs. I. Title. II. Series.
ML410.Z43G67 2002
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Copyright Acknowledgments
The author and publisher are grateful for permission to reproduce material from the following:
Frontispiece photograph of Alexander Zemlinsky. Used by permission of Alexander Zemlinsky
Fonds bei der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien.
Musical example 13.1, Zemlinsky, "Ich gen' des Nadus" (I Go at Night), mm. 2-6. Used by
permission of Boosey & Hawkes.
Musical example 14.1, Zemlinsky, "Da waren zwei Kinder" (There Were Two Children),
mm. 1-6. Used by permission of Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, Copenhagen. Copyright © 1900
Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, Copenhagen.
Musical example 14.2, Zemlinsky, "Meeraugen" (Sea Eyes), mm. 1-3. Used by permission of
Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, Copenhagen. Copyright © 1900 Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS,
Copenhagen.
Musical example 14.3, Zemlinsky, "Klopfet, so wird euch aufgethan" (Knock, and It Shall
Be Opened to You), mm. 10-12, from Ehetanzlied (Marriage Dance) und Andere Gesdnge
op. 10. Reprinted by kind permission of the copyright owner. © 1913 by Ludwig Doblinger
(B. Herzmansky) KG., Vienna-Munich.
Musical example 15.1, Zemlinsky, "Die drei Schwestern" (The Three Sisters), mm. 1-4. Used
by permission of Universal Edition A.G. © 1914 by Universal Edition A.G., Wien/UE 5540.
Musical example 17.1, Zemlinsky, "Entfiihrung" (Abduction), mm. 12-15. Used by permis
sion of Mobart Music Publications.
Musical example 17.2, Zemlinsky, "Jetzt ist die Zeit" (Now Is the Time), mm. 8-11. Used
by permission of Mobart Music Publications.
Extracts from the Nachlass of Louise Zemlinsky. Used by permission of the Archive of the
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna.
Extracts from the Mahler-Werfel Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of
Pennsylvania. Used by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Brand, Juliane, Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris, eds. 1987. The Berg-Scboenberg Cor
respondence: Selected Letters. New York: W.W. Norton. Copyright © 1987 by Juliane Brand,
Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris. Used by permission of W.W. Norton &c Company,
Inc.
Schoenberg, Arnold. 1952. "My Evolution." Musical Quarterly, 38, no. 4 (October): 517-
527. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.
Schoenberg, Arnold. 1975. Style and Idea. Ed. Leonard Stein. Trans. Leo Black. Berkeley:
University of California Press. Used by permission of Belmont Music Publishers, Pacific Pali
sades, CA 90272.
Weber, Horst, ed. 1995. Briefwecbsel der Wiener Schule. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buch-
gesellschaft. Used by permission of Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1. Fin de siecle Vienna 1
2. Getting Started 17
3. The Real World 27
4. Prague 37
5. Berlin 54
6. "The Gates of Hell Had Opened" 62
7. Flight 68
8. Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Schoenberg's Circle 75
9. Zemlinsky and the Eternal Feminine, Alma Schindler 98
10. Poetry and Song: Zemlinsky and the Second Viennese
School 117
11. Introduction to the Songs 136
12. Apprenticeship: Early Unpublished Songs 144
13. A Notorious Brahmin: Op. 2, Op. 5, Op. 6 153
14. A New Path: Op. 7, Op. 8, Op. 10, Unpublished Songs 170