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The Berg-Schoenberg correspondence : selected letters / edited by Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris.
LIBRA ML410.B47 A4 1987
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berg, Alban, 1885-1935, correspondent.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Berg, Alban, 1885-1935--Correspondence.
- Berg, Alban.
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951--Correspondence.
- Schoenberg, Arnold.
- Composers--Austria--20th century--Correspondence.
- Composers.
- Composers--Correspondence.
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Composers--Austria--Correspondence.
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
- Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
- Austria.
- Local Subjects:
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
- Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
- Genre:
- personal correspondence.
- letters (correspondence)
- Personal correspondence.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1987]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about the relationship between Berg and Schoenberg: first as pupil and teacher, then as friends and finally, after the premier of Wozzeck, as colleagues and peers. They also shed light on the reasons for Schoenberg's move to Berlin in 1911, the intrigue behind the early demise of the Society for Private Musical Performance, and Schoenberg's feigned indifference to the success of Wozzeck. Schoenberg describes his first years in America and the correspondence ends with Berg's death in 1935. The letters are fully annotated and supplemented with appendices, facsimiles and many photographs. -- Goodreads.com
- Contents:
- The letters: 1906-1915 ; 1916-1925 ; 1926-1935.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- From the personal collection of Penn composer James Primosch, presented to the Penn Libraries by his wife, Mary Murphy.
- ISBN:
- 0393019195
- 9780393019193
- 0393336395
- 9780393336399
- OCLC:
- 13395658
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