Mark Berry: Arnold Schoenberg (Paperback)

Mark Berry: Arnold Schoenberg (Paperback)

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Critical Lives Series, 3238p., 2019, english, Paperback, 200×130×15mm

The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. Born in the Jewish quarter of his beloved Vienna, Schoenberg’s early career took him to Berlin, as a leading light of Weimar culture, before he fled in the dead of night from Hitler’s Third Reich. He found himself in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he would inspire 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, and it changed the history of music forever.
In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg’s life and work within the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. He also introduces all of Schoenberg’s major musical works, from his very first compositions such as String Quartet in D Major to his invention of the 12-tone method. This book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the music and history of the twentieth century.

Introduction
1 Birth and Transfiguration
2 Emancipating the Dissonance
3 Air of Another Planet
4 ‘War Years’ and their Aftermath
5 Composing with Twelve Notes Related Only to One Another
6 Goodbye to Berlin
7 Exile
8 Citizenship: War and Peace
References
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Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements

"A superb piece of writing: informative, engaging, and compact. It wears its considerable research with a winning lightness of touch. The best introduction to the composer." (Thomas Hyde, Worcester College, University of Oxford)