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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Autobiography Biography Autobiographies Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959- Schoenberg reader. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002154114 (OCoLC)51046873 |
Named Person: | Arnold Schoenberg; Arnold Schoenberg; Arnold Schoenberg |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Henry Auner; Arnold Schoenberg |
ISBN: | 9780300127126 030012712X 0300095406 9780300095401 1281740705 9781281740700 |
OCLC Number: | 128307176 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 428 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Early years in Vienna and Berlin: 1874-1906 -- "Air from another planet": Vienna, 1906-1911 -- "War clouds": Berlin and Vienna, 1911-1918 -- "The path to the new music": 1918-1925 -- Prussian academy of the arts: Berlin, 1926-1933 -- "Driven into paradise": Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, 1933-1943 -- Final years: Los Angeles, 1944-1951. |
Responsibility: | Joseph Auner. |
Abstract:
Arnold Schoenberg's close involvement with many of the principal developments of 20th-century music has generated controversy. This collection of his essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers insights into the composer's life, work, and thought.
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"Not since O. E. Deutsch's work on Handel and Schubert has a major composer been treated to a documentary biography as impressive as this one. Auner's Schoenberg Reader is a splendid and essential volume of first-rate scholarship." Walter Frisch, author of The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg Read more...
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