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

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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:
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