Schoenberg : why he matters / Harvey Sachs.
| Author/creator |
Sachs, Harvey, 1946- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. |
| Description | xx, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Prologue: A warning -- Author's note -- A boy from Matzah Island -- Forming the battle lines -- War, internal and external -- Breakthrough and breakaway -- A Californian finale -- Epilogue: What now? |
| Abstract | An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. |
| Abstract | "In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century's most influential composers and teachers. He shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the "Procrustean bed" of tradition. Defying his critics--among them the Nazis, who described his music as "degenerate"--he constantly battled the anti-Semitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music." -- Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781631497582 |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9781631497575 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 163149757X (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S283 S23 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |