Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential
Korngold c. 1927
Korngold (undated, c. 1912)
Paul Wittgenstein plays piano with left hand for Korngold, 1934
Korngold (undated, c. 1920)
Die tote Stadt
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Die tote Stadt, Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It premiered in
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
…Artur Schnabel. His one-act operas Violanta and Der Ring des Polykrates were premiered in Munich in 1916, conducted by Bruno Walter. At 23, his opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) premiered in Hamburg and Cologne. In 1921 he conducted the Hamburg Opera. During the 1920s he re-orchestrated, re-arranged and nearly…
Scene at the Graz Opera in 2015
Marlis Petersen, Jonas Kaufmann, 2019 Munich production
Libretto cover published in 1921
Opera notes with dedication