A. ZEMLINSKY

,Just heard your wonderful Symfonietta: hope it is the beginning of your american success’,wrote Arnold Schönberg to Zemlinsky. But Zemlinsky suffert already after a stroke and died some days later on,  lonely in New York. In his Sinfonietta op. 24 (1934) he used again a short theme from the last song of his Maeterlinck-Songs, Op. 13 (1913): „Wohin gehst Du?“ (Where are you going?) It’s alredy a theme of ,self-doubts‘ and ‚Farewell’ when Zemlinsky noticed very carefully the more and more stronger restrictions against the Judaism in Vienna. The Maeterlinck-Songs are „the center of his productivity“ (Adorno), and abduct the listeners in a mystic world about life, evanescense and death.