| Max von Schillings, well
known as a conductor, was appointed Intendant of the Berlin Opera in 1918 and during the
following seven years before his resignation was responsible for the first performances of
important operas by Pfitzner, Schreker, Busoni and Richard
Strauss, the last named an important influence on his
career.
Compositions by Max von Schillings include a brilliant violin concerto,
a symphonic prologue to the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles and the opera Moloch, based on a
fragment by Friedrich Hebbel.
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