Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek

The Austrian composer Emil von Reznicek lived into his eighties and kept up with the times. His career was sidelined only by World War II, and his oeuvre reflects styles ranging from Wagnerian late Romanticism to neoclassicism and even jazz-influenced works. Largely forgotten except for the opera Donna Diana (1894), Reznicek's music has seen some revivals in the 21st century. He wrote five symphonies; tone poems including a trilogy: Schlemihl (1912), Der Sieger (1913), and the lost Frieden (Eine Vision) of 1914. Performances of Reznicek's music were discouraged, and some of his unpublished manuscripts were confiscated by the government and lost.