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 oneact 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 selfchosen isolation of the young widower Paul. Paul suffers from the loss of his dead wife Marie. One day (read more on: (ENGLISH) (DEUTSCH) (NEDERLANDS)