On this episode, Jens & Joe deal with Franz Schreker, the lacking hyperlink between Schoenberg and Zemlinsky – and a composer of wildly Freudian fairy-tale operas that have been all the fashion between the wars. Deemed too trendy in his time, and stunning in Vienna – however liked for each – Schreker was one of the crucial extensively carried out opera composers earlier than World Battle II, together with Richard Strauss and Walter Braunfels. However the curse of the Nazis and the following shunting of a lot of the romantic repertoire noticed him largely forgotten, occasional resuscitation-efforts however.
