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Apart from providing analyses of every major score, Beaumont gives a detailed account of the composer's early years as a protege of Brahms and Mahler, and of his career as a conductor whom both Schoenberg and Stravinsky considered the finest they ever had.

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Born in 1871, Alexander Zemlinsky, a protege of Brahms and Mahler, was regarded as the most promising Viennese composer of his generation. His music was to be eclipsed, however, by that of his more musically radical pupil, Arnold Schoenberg, who married his sister. Zemlinsky was also a conductor who worked and traveled throughout Central Europe encouraging many younger composers. Beaumont traces Zemlinsky's career in a thoroughly researched and brilliantly written volume that is the only substantial biography of the composer written in English. In addition, the author offers insightful, accessible analyses of several of Zemlinsky's compositions. Included are 94 musical examples, eight pages of photographs, and 22 pages of notes. Appendix 1 lists known dates of compositions and publications, lost or incomplete works, and the location of manuscripts. Appendix 2 lists recordings. This carefully documented book belongs in every music library and will be of interest to anyone who wishes to explore the social and cultural milieu that disappeared with the triumph of Hitler's Reich. Undergraduate and graduate collections. W. Ross; University of Virginia

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Antony Beaumont was born in London and studied at King's College, Cambridge. He now lives in Germany where he is active as a conductor, lecturer, and freelance musicologist. In 1992, Beaumont was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera to complete the orchestration of Zemlinsky's last opera, Der K nig Kandaules. Premi red in 1996, the work has since been staged by several other opera companies, recorded and televised. Beaumont has also edited and (where necessary) reconstructed several other major works from the composer's posthumous papers at the Library of Congress.Antony Beaumont is author of Busoni the Composer (Faber, 1985). He co-edited (with Susanne Rode-Breymann) Alma Mahler-Werfel's Diaries 1898-1902, his English translation of which was published to great acclaim by Faber in 1998.