The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (Cambridge Companions by Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner

By Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, instructor, painter, and essentially the most vital and debatable figures in twentieth-century track. This spouse provides enticing essays by means of prime students on Schoenberg's crucial works, writings, and ideas over his lengthy existence in Vienna, Berlin, and l. a.. demanding monolithic perspectives of the composer as an remoted elitist, the quantity demonstrates that what has saved Schoenberg and his track attention-grabbing and provocative was once his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and reworked, with the extensive diversity of musical and inventive advancements in the course of his lifetime he critiqued and integrated, and with the elemental cultural, social, and political disruptions during which he lived. The booklet offers introductions to Schoenberg's most crucial works, and to his groundbreaking recommendations together with his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters additionally study Schoenberg's lasting impression on different composers and writers over the past century.

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