Tag: Gulbankian Orchestra
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Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau & Korngold: Violin Concerto
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942) and Erich Korngold (1897–1957) led similar lives. Both were Austrian-born and Jewish, and both were active as opera composers in Vienna in the first decades of the 20th century. The rise of the Nazis forced both composers to move to the United States, where Korngold fared much better than Zemlinsky. Korngold excelled…