Majors: Music Performance; Musical Studies
Research Advisor: Dr. Timothy R. Sullivan
Presidential Scholar Advisor: Dr. Emmett O’Leary
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Title: Zemlinsky: The Transition to Musical Modernism from Brahms to Schoenberg
Alexander Von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer and conductor working during the turn of the 19th century. I had stumbled upon his music and then found more information on his relationships with other great musical figures during his life. Studying under Johannes Brahms, the great German Romantic composer, and a mentor of Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of the 12-tone compositional technique and a pioneer of atonal music, one can hear in Zemlinsky’s music the influence of Brahms and the slow progression to musical modernism. My project is to examine the life, music and the personal relationships of Zemlinsky. I will study the scores and personal writing of Zemlinsky, Brahms, and Schoenberg in an attempt to find an artistic thread which connects these composers.