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16 Aug 2005

Die Gezeichneten at Salzburg

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/?050822crmu_music

ALL ABOUT SCHREKER

A forgotten fin-de-siecle composer.

By Alex Ross [The New Yorker, 22 August 2005]

A friend once borrowed a history of opera from the library, only to find that every other page had been marked up by one of those hyper-punctuating annotators who stalk the pages of library books around the world. Whether the topic was Monteverdi, Wagner, or Gilbert and Sullivan, the voice in the margins kept returning to one agonized, enigmatic question: "WHAT ABOUT SCHREKER???" My friend, who understandably knew little of the Austrian opera composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934), began to use that graphite cri de coeur as shorthand for the cult of obscure art, which sees repertories and canons as conspiracies against neglected genius. Any gathering of aesthetes will sooner or later have a "What about Schreker?" moment.

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