Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
by Eric Salzman
Period: Early 20th
Century
Born: Tuesday, December 22, 1874 in Pressburg (Pozsony;
Hungary)
Died: Saturday, February 11, 1939 in Vienna,
Austria
Nation of Origin: Hungary/Austria
Major Works:
Notre Dame (opera, 1914)
Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (oratorio, 1935-37)
Four symphonies, organ works, and many chamber works
Other Information:
Schmidt was born on December 22, 1874 in Pressburg (Pozsony, then
part of Hungary; now Bratislava, Slovakia). Though Hungarian by
birth, he is dubbed "Austrian" in every major biographical text
because he lived and worked there from the age of 15.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900,
Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
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