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100	1		_aBrod, Max, _d1884-1968
245	1	0	_aAdolf Schreiber
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-07-07
508			_aJana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Adolf Schreiber: Ein Musikerschicksal" by Max Brod is a biographical memoir written in the early 20th century. It portrays the gifted yet self-effacing composer and kapellmeister Adolf Schreiber as he struggles with poverty, self-doubt, and the indifferent machinery of the theater world, even as his songs reveal a rare, individual voice. The portrait blends intimate reminiscence, critical appreciation, and letters to show how a principled, hypersensitive artist repeatedly thwarted his own chances for recognition. The opening of the memoir begins with Schreiber’s drowning at Wannsee and the author’s recollection of a failed 1913 public appeal to gain him performances. It depicts Schreiber’s extreme modesty and self-sabotage—his hostility to praise, his refusal of help—set against the narrator’s fervent advocacy of his songs (notably the Altenberg settings) and memories of their shared Prague youth, early musical enthusiasms, and Jewish background. The narrative then shows how lack of money trapped him in operetta posts across provincial stages, with rare opera chances yielding no lasting change, while contacts with publishers, singers, and even Humperdinck came to nothing. His style is sketched as simple yet original, with naive-seeming harmonic turns, illustrated through cycles after Morgenstern and Liliencron and marred by misfortunes like a bungled Berlin concert. The section closes with his marital separation, a draining love affair, the humiliation of being replaced at a premiere he prepared, and a friend’s letter recounting the days leading to his suicide and the theater’s callous aftermath. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cBerlin: Welt-Verlag, 1921
653			_aSchreiber, Adolf, 1883-1920
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76456
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