Schoenberg and Redemption

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Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoenberg's revolutionary step was in part a response to Wagner's negative charges concerning the Jewish influence on German music. In 1898 and especially 1908 Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his com…

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Full title :Schoenberg and Redemption

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Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:259 p.

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ISBN:0521550351, 9780521550352
oclc:ocn900349949
LC Classification:ML410.S283
Dewey Decimal:780.92

Introduction; 1. Schoenberg, history, trauma?; 2. Schoenberg as Christ; 3. Ot Weininger, Richard Wagner and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna; 4. Schoenberg and Wagnerian Deutschtum; 5. Compositional innovation and the redemption of Ahasuerus; 6. Woman and the symbolism of self-redemption; 7. Re-reading Schoenberg's Musical Idea; 8. Coda: changing history into memory; Appendix. 'Every young Jew'.