Psalm 23 for Mixed Choir and Orchestra Score - Alexander Zemlinsky
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
(b. 14 October 1871 (Vienna) – d. Larchmont, NY, 15 March 1942)
Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, op. 14
Composed: Summer 1910
First performance: Vienna, 10 December 1910
The Composer
Zemlinsky was an influential Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. He helped to found Polyhymnia, a Viennese orchestra through which he met the young Arnold Schoenberg (“maltreating his instrument” at a rehearsal). Zemlinsky became one of the noted conductors of his generation: he was the first Kapellmeister of the new Vienna Volksoper (from 1907 at the Hofoper), and from 1911-1927 he conducted at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague, premiering Schoenberg’s Erwartung in 1924. After working under Otto Klemperer as a conductor at the Kroll Opera (Berlin), he returned to Vienna in 1933 and settled in the United States in 1938, remaining virtually unknown during the last five years of his life.
Although his whole family converted to Judaism during his youth (his father was Catholic and his mother’s parents were Jewish and Muslim), he converted to Protestantism in 1930 (just as Schoenberg did in 1898). He alluded to the Christian cross and to Jesus in the text of Turmwächterlied and composed three psalm settings for chorus and orchestra.
Influence as a Teacher
As a conductor, Zemlinsky was admired by Stravinsky and Kurt Weill, not only for his advocacy of Mahler, Schoenberg, and other contemporary music, but also for his notable interpretations of Mozart. As a teacher and composer, he exerted a powerful influence on musicians of his time: his Lyric Symphony (1923) influenced Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite (1926), which quotes from it and is dedicated to Zemlinsky. The composer’s sister, Mathilde von Zemlinsky (1877-1923), married his former student and close friend Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).
Zemlinsky’s importance to Schoenberg, an acknowledged autodidact, cannot be overstated, for Schoenberg recognized Zemlinsky as his only teacher, and one of just three friends to whom he owed his knowledge. In addition, Zemlinsky played an influential role in Schoenberg’s early social and cultural life: he arranged the first public performance of a Schoenberg work at a Polyhymnia concert on 2 March 1896.
Zemlinsky’s other notable pupils included Alma Mahler, Peter Adler, and Karl Weigl. Adler was the artistic director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950-1964) and pioneered the televised broadcast of opera, commissioning works from Menotti, Dello Joio, Martinu, and Henze; he led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959-1968. Weigl immigrated to the US in 1938 and taught at the Hartt School of Music (Hartford, Connecticut), the Boston Conservatory, and the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Two of Zemlinsky’s most promising students, Hans Krása and Viktor Ullmann, died at Auschwitz-Birkenau after working to organize the cultural and musical life of the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1942-1944.
Hollywood film composer Erich Wolfgang von Korngold’s father was handpicked by Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) to succeed him as the critic for Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse. Julius Korngold sought Gustav Mahler’s advice about his talented son: Mahler directed him to enroll Erich in private studies with Alexander Zemlinsky, rather than the Conservatory, where Julius had studied with Anton Bruckner.
Score No., 1671
Edition, Repertoire Explorer
Genre, Choir/Voice & Orchestra
Pages, 44
Size, 210 x 297 mm
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