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and swallows some himself. Wesener gives money to a beggar, remembering Marie. He does not recognize her. Marie’s sobs are drowned by sounds of marching. Personalities | Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Modern Era | Opera ...

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(Bârnt A-lo’-es Tsim’-mer-man) 1918–70 German composer Initially attracted to Milhaud and Stravinsky, Zimmermann studied at Darmstadt and was already integrating serialism with elements of popular music in the ballet score Metamorphose (1954), whose ‘boogie-woogie’ passage was later incorporated into the trumpet concerto Nobody Knows da Trouble I See of the same year, itself featuring the African-American spiritual of that ...

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Zimmerman composed only one opera, yet it is one of the most powerful German-language works of recent years. The four-act Die Soldaten (‘The Soldiers’) premiered in Cologne in 1965. Zimmermann travelled outside Germany just once, when he was sent to France during the war. Here, he familiarized himself with the musical scores of Stravinsky, Honegger, Poulenc ...

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homely, sentimental humour that has proved hugely popular in Germany. The expressive and dramatic range of Lortzing’s works is limited, but his best operas, including Zar und Zimmermann (‘Tsar and Carpenter’, 1837), retain a solid position in the German repertory. Recommended Recording: Zar und Zimmermann, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Staatskapelle Dresden (cond) Robert Heger (EMI/Warner) Introduction | ...

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Kreidekreis (‘The Chalk Circle’, 1932) was suppressed by the Nazis, he moved to America and died in relative obscurity. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Modern Era | Opera Stage & Scene | Gustav Mahler | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

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(1717–1803): they are not believed to be related. Recommended Recording: The Perfect Stranger, Ensemble InterContemporain (cond) Pierre Boulez (Zappa Records) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Contemporary | Classical ...

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polystylistic mode. Operas by Giya Kancheli (Georgian, b. 1935), Sándor Szokolay (Hungarian, b. 1931) and Rodion Shchedrin (Russian, b. 1932) remain rarities in the West. The German Zimmermann wrote only one opera before his suicide. Die Soldaten (‘The Soldiers’, 1965) benefits from the composer’s experience of writing for radio and theatre; like Berg’s Lulu, it incorporates film ...