A Schoenberg reader : documents of a life / Joseph Auner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Composers--Austria--Vienna--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxvi, 428 p.) ) ill., facsims., music, ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 authoritative new collection of Schoenberg's essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer's life, work, and thought. The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg's activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance,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 by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg's career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

1. Early Years in Vienna and Berlin: 1874-1906

2. ''Air from Another Planet'': Vienna, 1906-1911

3. ''War Clouds'': Berlin and Vienna, 1911-1918

4. ''The Path to the New Music'': Mödling, 1918-1925

5. Prussian Academy of the Arts: Berlin, 1926-1933

6. ''Driven into Paradise'': Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, 1933-1943

7. Final Years: Los Angeles, 1944-1951

Notes

Bibliography of Sources

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-409) and index.

ISBN:

9786611740702

9781281740700

1281740705

9780300127126

030012712X

OCLC:

1013956718