As it happens, I had recently seen Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg” (“The Dwarf”) at L.A. Opera, whose music director, James Conlon, is a tireless advocate of composers who lost their careers ...

Hear music from Zemlinsky's two one-act operas based on works by Oscar Wilde. The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond. It's been 65 years since the death of Viennese composer ...

Zemlinsky Hans Christian Andersen's music has been inspiring composers for the better part of two centuries. Alexander Zemlinsky is one of many in that long line. Before we hear the first and ...

Tuesday: Donald Macleod unpicks the tangled love affair between Zemlinsky and Alma Schindler, who left the composer heartbroken when she abandoned him to marry Gustav Mahler. Wednesday ...

If one piece of music could bring post-romantic composer Alexander Zemlinsky out of obscurity, it would be his Cello Sonata, which recently resurfaced and received its North American premiere on ...

The Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) wrote only a handful of choral works — 15 in all — and none of these is at all well-known. That may change as a result of this new ...

But there’s more to the story: Zemlinsky wrote the piece after suffering a heartbreak when his paramour left him for another composer, and the score was thought to be long lost. A pair of ...

This year Conlon expands the scope of that philosophy by linking the works of Still and Zemlinsky — two composers whose lives never intersected, but shared the common experience of having their ...