‘Beauty be the Prey of the Strong’: Curation and Characterisation in Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten at the Bavarian State Opera

CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG, Department of Music, University of York, ca585@york.ac.uk In the early years of his career, the Austrian composer Franz Schreker was regarded by the public as a progressive artist and a somewhat provocative figure in musical society. With their complex scores and controversial subject matter, his operas were surrounded by an air of scandal.[1] His 1918 opera, Die Gezeichneten …