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*2nd wife if Ignaz Isaak Schecker: Eleonore von CLOSSMANN Born: May 18, 1853 from Styria, Austria. Married: May 28, 1876 Residence: Linz, 1876 moved to Monaco, 1888 moved to Vienna. occupation: Governess in Vienna *daughter of well-to-do aristocratic Styrian family Godmother: princess von Windischgrätz
Note: schreker.org, grave, wiki; Primarily a composer of operas, his style is 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. Schreker was the eldest son of the Bohemian Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore von Clossmann, who was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of his father, the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory. Starting with violin studies, with Sigismund Bachrich and Arnold (see Rosé family), he moved into the composition class of Robert Fuchs, graduating as a composer in 1900. His first success was with the Intermezzo for strings, Op. 8, which won an important prize sponsored by the Neue musikalische Press in 1901. After graduating from the conservatory he spent several years taking various bread-and-butter jobs. His first opera, Flammen, was completed in 1902 but failed to receive a staged production. Schreker had begun conducting in 1895, when he had founded the Verein der Musikfreunde Döbling. In 1907 he formed the Vienna Philharmonic Chorus, which he conducted until 1920: among its many premières were Zemlinsky's Psalm XXIII and Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and Gurre-Lieder.. *image Franz Schreker family ca. 1930 left to right: wife Maria Schreker, daughter Ottilie, son Imanuel and Franz Schreker *products on Amazon
Note: any relation to Wellisch names on Bing page?
Note: in 1938, after the Anschluss to Germany, widowed Elsa and her children emigrated to USA, via Milan, London to New York and in 1940 to Peoria, Illinois
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