“And then, by a lucky accident, I switched on my car radio while driving home. I was so struck by the beauty and opulence of what I heard that I was afraid to turn it off for fear of not learning what the piece was; its loss would have haunted me like the lost chord.”

Read James Conlon’s full text on Alexander Zemlinsky on our MusikSalon.

Currently two productions of Zemlinsky’s one-act opera Der Zwerg are running in Germany: one at the Staatstheater Mainz and one at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.