Antony Beaumont

'Sechs Gesänge' ('Six Songs') based on poems by Maurice Maeterlinck were composed as piano songs in 1910 and 1913 and orchestrated in 1924. They show the art of song writing at its very best. The voca...

EB 2861 is printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

If, as the editor states, Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy is one of the milestones of 20th century music theatre, its path to acceptance was rather arduous. Beginning with the troubled text by Oscar...

'Only music can resolve those mysteries of the mind which often kindle in the human soul.' (Hans Christian Andersen, 1831)

Zemlinsky's fairy-tale opera 'Es war einmal' had a very successful world premiere in 1900 and was staged several times afterwards until 1926. The opera was then forgotten for several decades and prese...

Alexander Zemlinskys Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge op. 7 erscheint nun in einer kritischen Neuausgabe von Antony Beaumont. Die Lieder, 1898–1899 komponiert, zeigen Zemlinskys Suche nach neuer Harmon...