Franz Schreker
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Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker, March 23, 1878, MonacoTemplate:NdashMarch 21, 1934, Berlin) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. 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.
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