Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker (March 23, 1878 - March 21, 1934), was an Austrian composer and conductor. His Oeuvre, consisting mainly of operas, is characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

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Schreker was the oldest son of the Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore von Clossmann. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and after his father's death the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Conservatory. Starting with violin studies he moved into the composition class given by Robert Fuchs and finally graduated as a composer in 1900. Schreker had begun conducting in 1895, when he had founded the Verein der Musikfreunde D?bling. After graduating from the conservatory he spent several years taking various bread-and-butter jobs. In 1907 he formed the Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920, and among its many premi?res were Zemlinsky's Psalm XXIII and Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Gurrelieder.

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