This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s taken close to a century, but the ugliest man of Genoa has at last ...

Franz Schreker, an Austrian composer of Jewish descent who was hounded to an untimely death by the Nazis, has long been considered an unjustly forgotten genius. In recent years, however, Schreker’s ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Austrian composer Franz Schreker appears to be having a posthumous ...

The story of Franz Schreker flips classical music's greatest cliché on its head. Instead of toiling in obscurity during his life and gaining fame only after death, the Austrian was a star as a young ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Contemporary works by JG Thirlwell and Adolphus Hailstork, a Franz Schreker survey and a new recording by Michael Spyres are among the highlights.

Of the “degenerate Jews” whose work and lives were erased in the Nazi deluge, one of the most remarkable is Franz Schreker. He is also among the least known. Yet in the early years of the Weimar ...

One of the Nazis' reasons for banning the music of Franz Schreker was his bold exploration of all manner of sexual kink. Today we know that the real reason was Schreker's Jewish roots – and we know ...

Unappreciated artists often put their trust in future generations, which is not wise: Posterity can be arbitrary and cruel. It’s taken 98 years for Franz Schreker’s brilliantly florid opera Der Ferne ...