Alexander von Zemlinsky, his life and work with analyse of 2nd String quartett D major op.15

Alexander von Zemlinsky ( b, 1872, Vienna - d. 1942, New York) is one the personalities rediscovered personalities rediscovered in the last decade. By the time of his death in exile in the USA he had been totally forgotten as composer, and nobody would have guessed that, within three decades, a wave of interest in the art of the turn of the century would rise which would bring his music to life again. Personally and artistically, Zemlinsky belonged to the circle that formed around Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg.He spet over half of his life in Vienna. It was there that he studied at the conservatory and later worked as conductor. In 1911 he became head of the opera of the New German Theatre in Prague, and one of the leading figures of the city´s nusical life in the following sixteen years.In the theatre, his Mozartean performances became legendary, and at concerts he earned renown for his accounts of Mahler symphonies. In 1927, Zemlinsky left Prague for Berlin to return, after the Nazis´advent to power, to Vienna, which he quit in 1938 for the United States. He never intergrand fully in the new milieu and the one-time star of European musical life set within a few months. Unfortunatelly doesn´t exist any publication in czech lanquage. In the second part is the analyse of 2nd Zemlinsky string quartett d-major op.1