| Series |
Bard Music Festival
Bard Music Festival series. ^A368770
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| Contents |
A Schoenberg chronology / Marilyn Mccoy -- Part I: Essays. Schoenberg and the audience: modernism, music, and politics in the twentieth century / Leon Botstein -- Schoenberg as theorist: three forms of presentation / Severine Neff -- Schoenberg and his public in 1930: the six pieces for male chorus, op. 35 / Joseph H. Auner -- Schoenberg and Bach / Rudolf Stephan -- The compressed symphony: on the historical content of Schoenberg's Op. 9 / Reinhold Brinkmann -- Schoenberg the reactionary / J. Peter Burkholder -- Part II: Arnold Schönberg (1912) / translated by Barbara Z. Schoenberg ; introduced by Walter Frisch -- An introduction / Karl Linke -- Schoenberg's music / Anton von Webern -- The Harmonielehre / Heinrich Jalowetz -- The paintings / Wassily Kandinsky -- Schoenberg the painter / Paris von Gütersloh -- The teacher (collected contributions by his students) / Karl Linke, Egon Wellesz, Robert Neumann, Erwin Stein, Heinrich Jalowetz, Karl Horwitz, Anton von Webern, Paul Koniger, Alban Berg -- Part III: Arnold Schoenberg speaks. Newspaper accounts of his lectures and interviews, 1927-1933 / selected and introduced by Joseph H. Auner ; translated by Irene Zedlacher. Arnold Schoenberg speaks ; Where is German music headed? ; A. Schoenberg, Die Gluckliche Hand ; Arnold Schoenberg holds forth ; A musician offers a glimpse into his workshop ; Arnold Schoenberg's idea ; Music-ideas from yesterday -- Part IV: Schoenberg and America / selected and introduced by Sabine Feisst. Schoenberg on America: articles, speeches, commentary -- Arnold Schonberg: foremost representative of modernistic school in Europe ; Comment on jazz ; Crisis of taste ; For New York ; First American radio broadcast ; Driven into paradise ; First California broadcast ; Oscar speech ; "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" ; Music and morality ; Protest on trademark ; The transplanted composer -- American composers on Schoenberg. This man Schönberg! / A. Walter Kramer -- Who is the greatest living composer? / Henry Cowell -- Welcome for the incoming modern master / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Homage to Schoenberg: the late works / Lou Harrison -- Schoenberg in the United States / Roger Sessions. |
| Abstract |
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers. This book explores the richness of his genius through commentary and documents. Marilyn McCoy opens the volume with a concise chronology, based on the latest scholarship, of Schoenberg's life and works. Essays by Joseph Auner, Leon Botstein, Reinhold Brinkmann, J. Peter Burkholder, Severine Neff, and Rudolf Stephan examine aspects of his creative output, theoretical writings, relation to earlier music, and the socio-cultural contexts in which he worked. The documentary portions of Schoenberg and His World capture Schoenberg at critical periods of his career: during the first decades of the century, primarily in his native Vienna; from 1926 to 1933, in Berlin; and from 1933 on, in the U.S. Included here is the first complete translation into English of the remarkable Festschrift prepared for the 38-year-old Schoenberg by his pupils in 1912; it presciently explored the diverse talents as a composer, teacher, painter, and theorist for which he was later to be recognized. The Berlin years, when he held one of the most prestigious teaching positions in Europe, are represented by interviews with him and articles about his public lectures. The final portion of the volume, devoted to the theme Schoenberg and America, focuses on how the composer viewed--and was viewed by--the country where he spent his final eighteen years. Sabine Feisst brings together and comments upon sources which, contrary to much received opinion, attest to both the considerable impact that Schoenberg had upon his newly adopted land and his own deep involvement in its musical life. |
| General note | Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 99031792 |
| ISBN | 0691048606 (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691048614 (pb : alk. paper) |
