Schreker, Franz

the vocal score of the work "für Declamation u. grosses Orchester", written in black ink on up to twelve staves per page, with the spoken declamation [for a female voice] written by Schreker above the staves, the words by Eduard Straken, with annotations in blue crayon and pencil, 

28 pages, folio (c.34 x 27cm), 12-stave paper ("Sünova no.4"), including a half-leaf inserted before p.11, twentieth-century half roan, green boards, gilt title to spine, [probably late 1932], worn, a few light stains

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Unpublished: the score of this work has never been printed or published.  Performing materials (orchestral parts) were printed in Germany and made available for hire, but not for sale. WorldCat lists no copies in any institutional library.   

Das Weib des Intaphernes was Schreker's final completed dramatic work, begun during late 1932 in Lisbon and completed in Berlin.  Based on a ballad by Eduard Stucken and set in the Persian Empire of Darius the Great, Das Weib des Intaphernes is melodrama with a narration, rather than an opera with singers.  Intaphernes and his entire family is imprisoned, charged with conspiracy against Darius and facing death.  Darius makes a proposition to Intaphernes's wife whereby she can choose to win the freedom of one member of the family in return for spending the night with him. Faced with an impossible choice, she sets the palace on fire and destroys everyone.

By 1932 Schreker was targeted as a Jew by the Nazis, who had forced him from his post at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in June.  The production of his last opera Der Schmied von Gent in Berlin in October had been ruined by anti-semitic demonstrations and the following year he was dismissed from the Prussian Academy of Arts.  The cumulative pressure put on Schreker over this period almost certainly lead to the stroke from which he died in March 1934.