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…
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. While his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater, his decision to score Warner Bros.' cine…
More than many other composers, Gustav Mahler's works are highly personal expressions of his inner world, a world of overwhelming alienation and loneliness - "thrice homeless," in his own words, "as a Bohemian in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, as a Jew throughout the wor…