Max von Schillings Biography

Max von Schillings, well known as a conductor, was appointed Intendant of the Berlin Opera in 1918 and during the following seven years before his resignation was responsible for the first performances of important operas by Pfitzner, Schreker, Busoni and Richard Strauss, the last named an important influence on his career. Compositions by Max von Schillings include a brilliant violin concerto, a symphonic prologue to the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles and the opera Moloch, based on a fragment by Friedrich Hebbel.