Bob Kasenchak wrote:

>Roger Hecht sends on some Zem reccomendations:
>
>>Der Geburtstag der Infantin (The Dwarf). Another fine lyrical opera.
>
>Hmm, is that also adapted from Wilde? He has a story by that name...a great
>great story.

It is adapted from Wilde.

>Were Wilde & Zemlinsky acquainted? I don't have Oscar's dates handy, but
>looking at Zem's and searching my memory it I think they were somewhat
>contemporaneous.   How many Wilde plays/stories did he adapt/write music
>for?

Wilde died in 1900 when Zemlinsky was 29 or so.  Zemlinsky also adopted
Florentine Tragedy from Wilde.  Florentine was from about 1916, the Dwarf
from 1921.

They could have met but in my limited reading I see no mention of it.
Anyone else?

Roger Hecht