COMPOSER

Franz Schreker

1878 - 1934

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Schreker is the 494th most popular composer (down from 407th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Monaco (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Monegasque Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Schreker ranks 494 out of 1,451Before him are Giuseppe Sarti, Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Arne, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Riz Ortolani. After him are Joachim Raff, Jehan Alain, Ferdinando Paer, John Koukouzelis, James Newton Howard, and Neville Marriner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Franz Schreker ranks 70Before him are Herbert Chapman, Yosano Akiko, Paul Pelliot, Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, and Hans Ledwinka. After him are Lionel Barrymore, Felix Bernstein, Stephen Timoshenko, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Charles Joughin, and Mikhail Artsybashev. Among people deceased in 1934, Franz Schreker ranks 52Before him are Hubert Lyautey, Adrien de Gerlache, Paul Troost, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Herbert Chapman, and Willem de Sitter. After him are Roberto Ferruzzi, Paul Gustav Fischer, Carsten Borchgrevink, Frederick Delius, Viktor Kaplan, and Charles Webster Leadbeater.

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In Monaco

Among people born in Monaco, Franz Schreker ranks 10 out of 32Before him are Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach (1864), Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (1697), Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (1965), Louis Chiron (1899), Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (1597), and Léo Ferré (1916). After him are Louis I, Prince of Monaco (1642), Ercole, Lord of Monaco (1562), Charles Leclerc (1997), Honoré I, Lord of Monaco (1522), Charles II, Lord of Monaco (1555), and Antonio Riberi (1897).

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Among composers born in Monaco, Franz Schreker ranks 1