Project Gutenberg 2025-07-07 Public domain in the USA. 125 Brod, Max 1884 1968 Brod, Maks 50044652 Adolf Schreiber : $b Ein Musikerschicksal $aBerlin :$bWelt-Verlag, $c1921. Jana 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) "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.) 20120714042045brod 1921 de Reading ease score: 72.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. de Schreiber, Adolf, 1883-1920 ML Text Category: Biographies Category: German Literature Category: Music 131554 2025-07-30T08:14:14.292472 text/html 106931 2025-07-07T12:27:47 text/html 491867 2025-07-30T08:14:18.405439 application/epub+zip 491961 2025-07-30T08:14:15.676468 application/epub+zip 194533 2025-07-30T08:14:14.919443 application/epub+zip 964216 2025-07-30T08:14:20.543455 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 948327 2025-07-30T08:14:17.696488 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 110948 2025-07-30T08:14:13.832468 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 91091 2025-07-07T12:27:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13711 2025-07-30T08:14:20.676396 application/rdf+xml 18176 2025-07-30T08:14:15.132449 image/jpeg 2730 2025-07-30T08:14:15.023446 image/jpeg 1026239 2025-07-30T08:14:14.320480 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia