| Series |
Critical lives
Critical lives (London, England) ^A697114
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| Contents |
Birth and transfiguration -- Emancipating the dissonance -- Air of another planet -- 'War years' and their aftermath -- Composing with twelve notes related only to one another -- Goodbye to Berlin -- Exile -- Citizenship : war and peace. |
| Abstract |
Tells the story of Schoenberg's life within the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. Born in the Jewish quarter of Vienna, Schoenberg's early career took him to Berlin, as a leading light of Weimar culture, before he fled in the dead of night forn Hitler's Third Reich. Settling in Los Angeles, he inspired composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Schoenberg's revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian late Romanticism and the brave new worlds of atonality and serialism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and discography (pages 227-235). |
| ISBN | 9781789140873 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1789140870 (paperback) |
