Schoenberg and Redemption

by Julie Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521550351
• ISBN13: 9780521550352
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"