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Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was the most frequently performed opera composer of his generation. His controversial works dominated the central European repertory in the years after World War I and exercised a major influence on such younger contemporaries as Alban Berg, Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek. Forced into retirement by Hitlers racial decrees in 1933, the composer, his music banned, died a broken man. Schrekers music is only now enjoying a revival. This first major biography not only introduces the reader to this important repertory, it sets the composer's life and works in the context of his turbulent times and provides a key to understanding the evolution of musical thought during the problematic years before and after the war.

"Christopher Hailey has produced a solid study of Franz Schreker, one of the era's [Weimar] more shadowy figures."

Alex Ross, New Republic, 01/27/1997

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