in 1933 from a pulmonary embolism in Berlin. His ashes were entombed at Frankfurt-am-Main. His composition work includes several operas, melodramas, choral works, chamber music pieces, violin and piano concertos, symphonic poems and works for stage (see list below). His most important work is undoubtedly his opera Mona Lisa (first performed on September 26, 1915, in Stuttgart), which became one of the most-performed operas in Germany until his death. He stands beside Engelbert Humperdinck and Richard Strauss as one of the composers who re-established the music form of melodrama at the start of the 20th century. Schillings was renowned as a music educator – one of his more famous students was Wilhelm Furtwängler. He was the dedicatee of "Sea Drift" by Frederick Delius. Schillings was an opponent of the Weimar Republic and a declared anti-Semite. The expulsion and exclusion of important Jewish and free-thinking artists from the Prussian Academy of the Arts began during his time as President – some artists affected were Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann, Ricarda Huch, Alfred Döblin, Thomas Mann, Max Liebermann, Alfons Paquet, Franz Werfel and Jakob Wassermann. He laid off Arnold Schoenberg from the teaching staff of the Academy, in contravention of Schoenberg's contract and in 1933, he ordered Franz Schreker, the leader of masterclasses in composition at the Academy, into early retirement. Selected works Operas Ingwelde Der Pfeifertag Moloch op. 20 Mona Lisa (1913/15, libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky) Melodramas Das Hexenlied, op. 15 Kassandra Das Eleusische Fest Concertos Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 25 Violin Concerto in G minor, op. 38 Piano Concerto Ein Totentanz op. 37 ("A Death Dance") Chamber music String quartet in E minor String quintet, op. 32 Miscellaneous Glockenlieder ("Bell Songs"), op. 22 Meergruß und Seemorgen (Sea Greeting and Lake Morning), op. 6 Vier liederen aus der Wanderzeit ("Four Songs from the Wandering Time"), op.2 Literature Gedenkschrift Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. Max von Schillings, Komponist und Dirigent, Zum 100. Geburtstag 19. April 1968, J. Geuenich + K. Strahn, Düren 1968 Max von Schillings, Der Kampf eines deutschen Künstlers (Max von Schillings, The struggles of a German artist), Wilhelm Raup, Hanseatische Verlaganstalt Hamburg, 1935. Max von Schillings. August Richard, Drei-Masken-Verlag München, 1922 Max von Schillings, Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Werke (Max von Schillings, A Summary of his Works), Joachim Beck Documents Letters by Max von Schillings held by the State Archives in Leipzig, company archives of the Music Publishing House C.F.Peters