A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life
A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life
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Abstract
Arnold Schoenberg's close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This new collection of Schoenberg's essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers insights into the composer's life, work, and thought. The documents reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg's activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg's career, from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin, to 1950s Los Angeles.
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Front Matter
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Early Years in Vienna and Berlin: 1874–1906
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“Air from Another Planet Vienna”:1906–1911
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“War Clouds”: Berlin and Vienna, 1911–1918
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“The Path to the New Music”: Mödling, 1918–1925
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Prussian Academy of the Arts: Berlin, 1926–1933
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“Driven into Paradise”: Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, 1933–1943
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Final Years: Los Angeles, 1944–1951
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