What school of composers was attended by the composer whose operas were considered the only German ones more important than "Die Soldaten" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann?
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918, Bliesheim, Rhine Province – 10 August 1970, Königsdorf (Frechen); full name "Bernhard Alois Zimmermann") was a West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera "Die Soldaten", which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As a result of his individual style, it is hard to label his music as avant-garde, serial or postmodern. His music employs a wide range of methods including the twelve-tone row and musical quotation.
Alfred Lorenz Alfred Ottokar Lorenz (11 July 1868, Vienna – 20 November 1939 Munich) was an Austrian-German conductor, composer, and musical analyst. His principal work is the four-volume "Das Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagner", which attempts to comprehensively analyze some of Richard Wagner's best-known operas. Lorenz's work reflects to a great extent his sympathy with Nazi ideology, and has only recently been discredited by scholarship.