Schreker, Franz

Schreker, Franz – Romantische Suite op. 14, IFS 26, 1900

(b. Monaco, March 23, 1878 – d. Berlin, March 21, 1934)

IFS 26, 1900

Idylle – Andante p.1
Scherzo – Prestissimo [Trio] p.26
Intermezzo – Nicht langsam. P.53
Tanz – Allo [sic:”Allegro”] vivace. p.64

Premiere
18 March 1910 in Vienna
Musikverein, Tonkünstler Orchester; Franz Schreker, conductor

First publication of the orchestral score
The third movement was engraved, and the other movements remain in the
composer’s handwriting. This combination was reprinted by Universal in 1977
as UE32 556, and labeled “1900/1902.”

Background
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher, and administrator. Although born in Monaco, his family moved to Linz in 1882 and then to Vienna after the death of his father, Ignaz Schrecker (1834-1888), who had been a prominent court photographer. His mother, Eleonore von Clossmann (1853-1919), was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria, and she ensured that he was educated at the Vienna Conservatory, beginning in 1892.

He began conducting in 1895, founding the Verein der Musikfreunde Döbling at the age of seventeen. His studies focused on violin, composition, and conducting, and he won an important prize in 1901 from the Neue musikalische Presse for his Intermezzo for Strings, op. 8. After graduating, Schreker founded the Vienna Philharmonic Chorus in 1907 and led this ensemble for thirteen years, conducting works such as Mahler’s Third and Eighth Symphonies and Delius’ Mass of Life and Sea Drift. He conducted the premieres of several notable choral works of the Second Viennese School, including Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden, Gurrelieder and Zemlinsky’s Psalm XXIII. He was appointed to the composition faculty of the Vienna Academy of Music in 1912. …

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