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Dictionary definition: Zemlinsky, Alexander (von)
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Zemlinsky, Alexander (von)
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b
Vienna, 1871;
d
Larchmont, NY, 1942). Austrian composer and conductor. Studied at Vienna Cons. with A. Door for pf. 1887–90, and J. Fuchs for comp. 1890–2. Joined Vienna Society of Musicians 1893, having several chamber works played, some of which pleased Brahms. Met Schoenberg 1893, and gave him lessons in counterpoint and introduced him to Wagner's mus. Cond. amateur orch. Polyhymnia in which Schoenberg played vc. Schoenberg said that Zemlinsky was the man he had to thank ‘for practically all my knowledge of technique and the problems of composition’. Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde became Schoenberg's first wife in 1901. ...
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