E.W. Korngold by Rudolf Schock live in Final Song from ’Die Tote Stadt’/The Dead City

LINK: (WITH DUET Mariëtta/Paul by Melitta Muszely/Rudolf Schock)! 1897: a musical prodigy is born! 1903: pianist, 1909: attracts attention as composer of a ballet, piano sonata and orchestral suite. His father Julius Korngold, a strict music critic in Vienna, allows Erich, on the advice of Gustav Mahler, to take music lessons with fellow composer Alexander Zemlinsky. This takes a short time, because Zemlinsky can not teach Erich anything anymore. 1916: successful premieres of two one-act operas. 1917: conductor in Vienna 1920: Korngold’s new opera ’Die Tote Stadt/The Dead City’ is an unprecedented success in Hamburg and Cologne. 1921: Even more sensational is the reception of ’Die Tote Stadt’ in Vienna and the Metropolitan Opera of New York. ’DIE TOTE STADT/THE DEAD CITY’ is the Belgian city of BRUGES. The old town symbolizes the self-chosen isolation of the young widower Paul. Paul suffers from the loss of his dead wife Marie. One day… (read more on: (ENGLISH) (DEUTSCH) (NEDERLANDS)