Arnold Schoenberg
by Berry, Mark
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 …
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- Full title :Arnold Schoenberg / Mark Berry.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Reaktion Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
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- Description:239 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781789140873, 1789140870
- oclc:on1041886917
- LC Classification:ML410.S283
- Dewey Decimal:780.92/2
Table of 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.
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