Composer to conductor
Alexander von Zemlinsky By The original uploader was Eaaumi at German Wikipedia(Original text: nicht bekannt) - http://www.alma-mahler.at/deutsch/almas_life/almas_life.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3706399
Alexander von Zemlinsky was an important composer/conductor in the Vienna of 1900. He was encouraged by Brahms, mentored by Mahler, and taught Arnold Schoenberg, who, for a time, was Zemlinsky's brother-in-law. Zemlinsky was a famous Mozart conductor, and, in the explosion of orchestral recording in the late 1920s, he recorded Mozart Overtures and other shorter pieces.
On this week's Classics of the Phonograph, Saturday at 11 am on WILL-FM, we will hear some of those recordings.