Alexander Von Zemlinsky

Austrian composer and conductor, born in 1871 in Vienna, where he became well-known as musician and highly regarded around the turn of the century, died on 15 March 1942 in Larchmont near New York as a broken man. His performances of Mozart, Wagner and Mahler in Prague and Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930s as well as his close encounters with Sch"onberg rendered Zemlinksy during his life-time an important figure of European music in the 20th century whose fame and music, however, were just to be re-discovered in the 1970s, several decades after his death.