Table of Contents

Prologue: Zemlinsky's Vienna
Finding Brahms
Conflicting Allegiances
Once Upon a Time
Auf Wiedersehen
Scandals
The Greatest Event of the Century
Freedom and Fading Dreams
Lyrical Farewells
The Berlin Experiment
Closing Doors
Homecoming
Zemlinsky Comes to Live Here
Epilogue: The Zemlinsky Revival

About the Author

MARC D. MOSKOVITZ is the author of Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony and co-author of Beethoven's Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World, both published by the Boydell Press. He has contributed program notes to orchestras and opera houses in the United States, Germany, Spain and China and entries for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. A dedicated teacher and performer, Moskovitz also serves as principal cellist of the ProMusica Columbus Chamber Orchestra.

Reviews

Moskovitz has supplied a bibliography that is lively, encouraging, and informative. [...] Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony is a worthy introduction to a composer worth knowing. Zemlinsky's wait has been much too long. If his time has still not come, it is long overdue, and Moskovitz's book should help to hasten its arrival.
*THE TRIANGLE*

This book goes a long way towards filling a gap in the Zemlinsky literature, while also raising interesting questions that suggest further work needs to be done. [...] Moskovitz's contribution will undoubtedly inspire future interest in Zemlinsky's life and music, among music lovers and scholars alike.
*NOTES*

Marc D. Moskovitz's work, blessed with such primary source material as the Zemlinsky-Schoenberg correspondence, is [a] milestone. ... Moskovitz constructs a lively presentation of his subject and his time. ... [and] does this composer, whom he clearly reveres, the honor of a concise, shapely and objective biography.
*OPERA NEWS*

Dans cette biographie attrayante et abordable, Marc D. Moskovitz situe très bien le personnage dans son époque [...] et consacre son chapitre final à la redécouverte tardive de ce génie oublié. Toutes les ouvres importantes sont commentées [...] cet ouvrage se lit avec un intérêt qui ne décroît jamais.
*FORUM OPERA*

[A] painstaking and generally elegant written monograph.
*MUSICAL TIMES*

Readers interested in the history of modern conducting, Austrian and German musical culture in the first half of the 20th century, musical modernism, and the relationship between modernism and Nazism will find this book especially useful. Recommended.
*CHOICE*

[A] splendid biography [...] Moskovitz lays down the narrative of Zemlinsky's life in prose that is clear, direct, and engaging. He expertly describes Zemlinsky's music, from the Brahmsian Clarinet Trio [...] the Lyric Symphony. Like any capable biographer, Moskovitz ties in political history.
*QUARTER NOTES*

[Moskovitz doesn't idealise his hero's character and gives... a sense... of the strengths and weaknesses of someone so close to many high modernism's most active and challenging personalities. His use of unpublished letters from Zemlinsky to Alma Mahler, and of Zemlinsky's second wife Louise... provides additional colour and content. ... [Moskovitz's] book leaves us in no doubt of just how complex and how crucial Zemlinsky's personal and professional relations were.
*GRAMOPHONE*