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Intermezzo for Woodwind Octet
Franz Schreker
Arranged by Tony Turrill from the Intermezzo for strings
2Fl./2Ob./2Cl./2Bsn
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Few people will immediately recognise the name Schreker. Franz Schreker was born in 1878. He was Austrian and Jewish After studying composition and the violin at the Vienna conservatory, at the age of 34, he was appointed to be a professor there and soon established a reputation for both his teaching and his compositions. His first staged opera Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound.) was a great success. In 1920 he soon moved to become director of the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music. . In 1924, at the height of his popularity, he was considered to be one of Germany’s leading musicians , some rated him on a par with Richard Strauss. However, in the late 1920s, the Nazis started to attack Schreker's performances and in 1932 , the premiere of his last opera, Christopherus, was abandoned due to violent anti-Semitic threats from the Nazis. In the same year, they forced his resignation from the academy and then set about obliterating all traces of his music. He died two years late from a stroke. The opera Christopherus was finally resurrected in 1978
This intermezzo was conceived in 1900 as a stand alone work . It is a brief work but an elegant one
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