Der Schmied von Gent
Music by Franz Schreker · libretto by Franz Schreker · premiered 1932
Der Schmied von Gent is a "Grand magical opera" in three acts by Franz Schreker with a German-language libretto by the composer after the story Smetse Smee by the Flemish author Charles de Coster.
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About the Composer
Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.
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